Press quotes for The Method and Result:


Philadelphia City Paper: "The most remarkable thing about The Method and Result is not their snazzy, beeping background noises or eccentric, machine-made polyrhythms. No, the real trick is that this Philly duo utilizes a small junkyard of machines and looping tricks to create such robotic beats and still comes off human."

Northeast Performer: "The Method And Result blend jerky beats, clever guitar tricks and lovely female vocals."

Village Voice: "The music is strong and sounds highly Chicago-influenced; often the riffs flow in angular David Grubs–like melodic rivulets through backdrops of well-constructed mood-inducing loops and samples."

Press quotes for [bert] / Holy Mary, Mother of Bert:


Indieville: "Hilarious, charming lyrics, and combine them with talented songwriting - all to great effect."

Splendid E-Zine: "With smart arrangements and songs populated with strange characters, these guys makes music for honors students who are too weird for pop and not alienated enough for goth."

Press quotes for Shark & Bear:


Delusions of Adequacy: "The guitars splinter off into wild tangents, then fuse back together in fantastic flourishes... the three songs here are equally brilliant. Whoever you are, you will enjoy this, because it’s so thoroughly good.">
The Noise: "The impulse behind their music is all complexity and ambition... The bass and guitars are gorgeous, sending out mind-altering, jagged squalls of joyful noise."

Press quotes for vaguely star shaped:


Splendid E-Zine: "Indie-power-pop goodness... stutter-step drumming, chunky rock riffing and charmingly strained vocals."

Indieville: "Catchy as all heck... Everything from the young, almost-emo-but-not vocals to the ultra-tuneful guitars, is very well-done."

Northeast Performer: "They take what could have been a generic "emo" song, grab some guitar and vocal effects from another world altogether, toss in some beautifully spastic drum work, and create something quite wonderful."

Press quotes for Jeremy From Boise:


The Idaho Statesman: "The definition of ambient alternative: Lethargic acoustic-guitar dissonance, soothing dual-tracked vocals, lo-fi environmental strangeness and miles of empty sky."

Press quotes for Score One For the Fat Kid:


Delusions of Adequacy: "Score One for the Fat Kid feels like they could be the geeks at high school playing complex music in their parents' garages, except none of the kids in my high school were this talented."

Splendid E-Zine: "Mind-bendingly intricate guitar lines stumble over each other like possessed Slinkies... a shambolic celebration of any and all outcasts: the nerds, the ugly and the large, all delivered with a well-earned and reciprocal wink."

Press quotes for Words For Snow:


Indieville: "The jagged detail and melodic urgency of professionals... a revelation in complex indie rock, combining amazing technical ability with pure accessibility."

Aiding & Abetting: "All over the post-rock spectrum, going from moody and introspective to a blistering maelstrom in no time flat."

Smother.net: "Math rock, with a sense for pop’s inabilities and lackings, while finding its appeal and putting that to good use."

Press quotes for Tristan da Cunha:


Indieville: "Complicated time measures and meticulously fine-tweaked, complex sound... Beneath the complexity, they attack the ears with a barrage of jerky rhythms, blasting guitar, and fine-ass melody."

Splendid E-Zine: "This is dance music from a parallel universe. This is poetry fresh out of an insane asylum. This is rock and roll filtered through a prism into extraterrestrial rainbows. This is not a test. This is Tristan da Cunha."

TinyMixTapes: "Writing fresh music that manages to hit you where it hurts, which is in the fucking groin. And it's relentless. Throughout its eight tracks, the trio treks through truckloads of triangular tunes that track the territorial tenants of its ilk."

Press quotes for Fiesel:


Indieville: "Making their way through the most impossible time measures, handling absolute guitar chaos as if it was nothing, while still remaining a zest for melody and tunefulness, these musicians perfectly embody what it means to be rock."

The Noise: "Not for the faint of heart or the musically unadventurous... Wildly dissonant to subtly melodic, songs that appear to be without form or structure, yet upon further listening, it becomes stunningly apparent that each bar is meticulously arranged."

Northeast Performer: "Excellent blend of imaginative rhythms, jarring guitars, scream-along vocals... within seconds the song can switch from catchy melodies that stick with you to chaotic math rock noise."

Press quotes for Andrew Wagner:


Message From the Homeland: "This kid is absolutely nuts... Wagner finds chords that had previously never existed, exposing and exploiting them for amateur guitarists who have been playing for a year and still can't play a power chord with a consistency to admire and adore."

Delusions of Adequacy: "Wagner plays his acoustic guitar in unique time signatures, often changing throughout a song and mixing strumming chords with rapid note progression. Every time I hear a person playing acoustic guitar so quickly and precisely, I'm reminded of classical guitar... Wagner plays with that kind of precision."

Northeast Performer: "One could randomly pick any song off of this record to hear him transition seamlessly between seemingly incommensurable time-signatures. The rhythmic and dynamic ranges that he spans from one measure to the next are as big as circus tents, with just as much going on inside of them."

Press quotes for The Nationale Blue:


All Music Guide: "Dizzying passages that range from pounding, low-end rhythms to synthesizer experiments to mind-bendingly mathy variations in tempo."

Pitchfork: "When they're not out graphing new directions for their music, the Nationale Blue like to smash their head pretty hard on the punk rock, too, and it shows in the energetic and convincing performances they put up."

The Noise: "tight, precise ensemble chops; forays into polyrhythms and multiple meters that flow through without too much jarring and with some apparent foresight and structural consideration; adept and frequently edgy instrumental virtuosity."

Press quotes for thebrotherkite:


Indieville: "A fantastic sort of melodic noise rock that comes at you with crashing walls of guitars and irresistible melodies."

Splendid E-Zine: "A slightly muffled blissout sprawl like riding down a hill no-handed, feeling the wind on your skin and the pavement beneath your wheels."

Press quotes for Calumet-Hecla:


Delusions of Adequacy: "Like a more melodic Arab on Radar, with shouted vocals providing a stark contrast to melodic guitars and powerful percussion."

Press quotes for Polaris Mine:


Weekly Dig: "Too smart to be pop but too much gentle attention to a fragile melody to be anything but utterly listenable."

Hybrid Magazine: "Polaris Mine have succeeded in creating the ultimate in indie based art rock."

Press quotes for Idiot Savant Garde:


Delusions of Adequacy: "Complex rhythms and varied time schemes... the vocals are sweet and harmonic, at times beautiful... about the most clever name for a band I think I have ever heard."