reviews of pindrop

pindrop is a murky, swirling, pulsating mass. drums are pounded urgently, with organ and voice wavering in and out of the mix like some kind of aural phantasy. composition plays second fiddle to the lyrics, which are often buried in the mix anyway. alienating, even disorienting! and engineered to sound like it was recording in the same olde back alley recording studio where lynch's eraserhead soundtrack was mastered. pindrop is easily one of the most mysteriously brilliant albums ever

scott gibbons

with the disquieting pindrop, the passage can be accepted as major even by the cowardly, cautious and cynical: it's a work of disciplined intellectual aggresssion, frantic emotions and powerfully idiomatic musicality

new musical express

the passage confront love, fear, repulsion and pain and all the most negative, most vindictive emotions humans are capable of, in the same sober, relentless way joy division did

sounds

...twisting insanity; frightening, surreal experience; the pain of clashing relationships... their subjects are as sophisticated as their songs' structural make-up, which belies the overall impression of idealistic youthfulness

record mirror

...dark, spacey, disturbing and quite beautiful

trouser press