"Something between country and postrock, Califone combine electronics with slide guitars (and bells and whistles) - exquisitely mixed with loads of space and amazing realism, plus good songs!"
"Their last record was an over-compressed mush, which is a shame cos they're excellent. This is a near-masterpiece though; amazingly dynamic like postrock ought to be."
"Guillemots chuck loads of instruments into the mix (typewriters! bells!) but do it sympathetically. Just listen to Sao Paulo; Fyfe knows sticking a record on a good stereo and floating away is great!"
"Disarmingly intimate and emotive set of songs for ukulele, piano, sampler, horse shoes, viola and feedback. His new one is terrific, but this is just so... beautiful, and stark."
"Almost everything he touches turns to sonic gold, from Sonic Youth to Wilco to Joanna Newsom to his own solo stuff. This gets a mention cos of the amazing strings."
"Owen knows the value of good headphones; the textures and timbres on this record are amazing, and the melodies are just as good. The lyrics? Bonkers! He's a star."
"Old fashioned production style suits the concept song-suite here - all about living in the hills in the 1890s - but it's far from backwards. Absolutely wonderful melodies and harmonies, too."
"Staggeringly, frighteningly realistic and dynamic. The quiet bits lull you so far in that the loud bits scare the hell out of you. He's an odd sort, Scott, punching a side of pork for percussion."
"These guys are great - a literate but boozy barband with amazing arrangements, and all recorded absolutely beautifully. Any of their albums is a winner."
"Hazy, heavily-reverbed sixties London guitar pop, recorded cheaply but with care; not strictly hi-fi per se, but alluring and evocative and beautiful."
"Those weaned on the Ross Robinson sludhe ot Relationship Of Command may be shocked by the sparseness and detail of this, never mind the blistering dynamics and defined guitars. Awesome."
"Vague and cheap-sounding at first, this is actually really involving and moreish; the fuzz is a psychedelic tool for these bass-happy and eclectic Northerners."
"Technically a few years old, but re-released, this is how to do a 20-minute, repetetive, hypnotic drone - with loads of detail and realness amongst the unreality."
"The last album pushed things a little too loud and lost some of the compellingly frazzled edges which makes TVotR's drone & groove aesthetic so compelling, but this debut EP has it all."
"The most bizarre and crazily detailed guitar sound I've ever heard; sort of a modern-day Beefheart's Magic Band. Lots of mumbling, off-kilter rhythms and disorienting riffs."
