| New York Fever | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | The Toasters |
| Cover: | New York Fever (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Genre: | Ska |
| Length: | 45:10 |
| Label: | Moon[1] |
| Prev Title: | This Gun for Hire |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Dub 56 |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
New York Fever is an album by the American band the Toasters, released in 1992.[2] [3] [4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5]
The album was mixed by Joe Jackson, under the alias "Stanley Turpentine".[6] [7]
Trouser Press wrote that the album "gets off to a tremendous start with the tight, energetic title track and the swaggering groove and social commentary of 'Ploughshares into Guns' ... After that one-two punch, though, tight musicianship takes the place of solid songwriting."[8] The Kitchener-Waterloo Record opined that "the production on this album is superb, with the bass runs punctuating rather than rolling."[9] The Arizona Daily Star called the album "funny, fun and insightful," writing that it "incorporates elements of funk, township jive, calypso and dance-hall music."[10]
AllMusic noted that "the songwriting could be a bit more polished and melodic in places instead of relying on the group's admittedly fine instrumental work."