"will light a fire
under you:"
"Dick Tracy Must Die -- the newest CD by
Crime And The Forces Of Evil: Purity and edge; technical
prowess and a kick-ass attitude... this disc will light a
fire under you! Check it out!" -- Heather Dale
"totally raving about
it all morning:"
"[CFoE] did a House Concert out here, and
totally rocked the house. And I mean rocked. It took me a
long time to come down enough to drift off to sleep, with
Stars still running through my head, and I'm still bouncing
from it this morning. [...] When I went in to Blackbird [Cafe]
to get Elixer this morning, I had people telling me they
were bummed they'd missed it; the people who had been
there were totally raving about it all morning [...]
this was kind of in the same
ballpark as having Lemmy or someone show up and do a set
in the living room." -- Westrider
on Livejournal, after a house concert.
"lustrous, hard, and
pure:"
"[Dick Tracy Must Die is] outstanding... these
birds are grown up and fly on their own... different,
interesting, and independent at its core... biting
insight and subtle wit... sincere and reasoned tenderness...
Nothing's wasted here. ... I can't find a single [song] I
dislike. ... The territory covered is impressive. I have
yet to tire of it. The group characterizes itself as
acoustic elf-metal. I would venture to say their sound
is better described as acoustic elf-chrome—lustrous,
hard, and pure." -- Paul Fergus at Diamond Island
"a big rocking thing that rocks:"
"Dick Tracy Must Die
is one of the most unique things I've heard... I could
talk about how awesome the drums sound, I could talk about
how cool the very idea of mandolin thrash metal is, I could
talk about how beautiful Let Me Help is or how creepy
Artefacts You'll Never See is... but I'm not going to
do any of that. Instead, I'm just going to say this:
Dick Tracy Must Die rocks like some sort of big
rocking thing that rocks." -- Gifted
Gear
"hard-core folk for the 21st century:"
"Finally got around to listening to [Dick Tracy
Must Die]. Great value. Hard-core folk for the 21st century.
Vocals even more interesting than Joanna Newsom. You ever
want some coldwave/electro beats down behind your acoustic
stylings, you just let Vostok Lake know, sistah." -- Daphne Lawless, Vostok Lake
"brilliant and
awesome:"
"[My Boyfriend] is brilliant and awesome. The super-shiny
kind of brilliant that has to be shared with as many people
as it can be..." -- Gleek, at And Now I'll Do't
"best of the
ceilidh:"
"You were the best of the ceilidh" -- Red
McWilliams, "America's Celt," 2010 Tacoma Highland Games
"Black Metal on
mandolin:"
"I'm so glad someone else is writing in this vein.
Musically and lyrically [My Boyfriend] is like a
middle ground between Leslie Fish and King Missile...
sometimes you have to do your Black Metal on mandolin
and whatever less common instruments you have hanging
around." -- tahkleet
"Cascadians, lend her
your ears."
"[Sketchy Characters is] growing up and scraping your
knee and finding your voice and figuring out what's really
scary after all, and it's beautiful. Friends, romans,
Cascadians, lend her your ears." -- Vicka Corey
"buy the thing:"
"[Sketchy Characters is] music for a nascent nation...
originality... crunchy themes... worth following... buy
the thing." -- Maellenkleth
insufficiently generic:
"[W]e are looking for music that is a little more
upbeat and generic... I'm afraid we wont be able to
use you." -- Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance