A COMPELLING AND EXTRAORDINARY SOUND THAT’S THOROUGHLY THEIR OWN--WITH TRACES OF ELVIS COSTELLO, THE TALKING HEADS, AND 1970S MEMPHIS LEGEND BIG STAR IN THEIR DENSELY NUANCED LINEAGE.
--Jonathan Stevenson, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn
they combined a celebration of the idea of the modern world with an almost total lack of feeling for the actual people in it everything solid everything solid everything solid everything solid everything solid everything sold everything solid everything solid melts into our ideas and arguments about modernism have been almost exclusively ideas and arguments about style there has been a tacit suppression of all the crucial questions about what modern life means or can mean means or can mean means or can mean and how modern men and women should live the deepest and most urgent moral and political conflicts have been fought out over our heads
