"A form of backlash against sing-along pop ballads"

- CMJ New Music Monthly

"Enormous symphonic art-rock. Sweeping, semi cinematic, feedback-drenched guitar epics"

- Tokion

" **** A phenominal instrumental rock album"

- Allmusic.com

"A maelstrom of beautiful, ecstatic, foreboding and magnificent sound"

- Indieworkshop.com

"like king crimson on a steady diet of red bull"

- allmusic.com

"melancholy has never sounded so good"

-Virgin Megastore

"japan's mono unfurl beautiful tapestries of sound amidst immense sheets of distortion. very powerful indeed"

-Austin Chronicle