"Take the well-layered, chaos-to-their-madness lyricism of bands such as FUGAZI or SONIC YOUTH, combine it with some neat fingerwork and warm distortion on bass, add some gloomy shades of early '80s new wave and brazen anarchopunk guitar work and you have the B-side of this EP. The spoken/wailed lyrics on 'Negative Space' are cool and reminiscent of Piccioto from FUGAZI. The gruffer track on Side A is more of a wailer, with a late '90s feel of indie decadence and self-pity-- 'with nothing left to inspire nothing glows.' This track could do without the one, sort of metal growl midway, but the driving guitars and nihilistic-sounding vocals maintain their gloomy hold on me, and I too 'just want the mania to grow.' Sympathy for the detail indeed, an interesting addition to the already growing sector of gloomy, guitar-based bands. Bands that make me want to stay locked in my room for a month, smoking and drinking and remembering/writing about my degenerate teenage atrocities. I like!"
-Maximum Rocknroll, January 2013
"Reno, NV is a pretty bleak place, one that can’t help but inform the mood of the bands that call it home. I swear, I even heard a wacky skateboard-thrash band from Reno and they still sounded pretty hopeless and desperate. It’s where Spitting Image hail from, and they do a noisy, driving indie-rock thing, initially spawned from Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. and now thriving in Spitting Image. More specifically, the vocals remind me of Hellbender, and the music sounds like a faster-paced Broken Water, resulting in a wounded form of rocking ’90s indie. They sound pretty good, like they were borne out of punk and just ended up being too melodic and brooding and tuneful to remain a punk band, as opposed to just another group of indie-rock blog-hype hopefuls who have no idea what a real circle pit is like. Keep it going, Spitting Image!"
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