Centro-Matic's music comes on like a sound from a distant dream, something new, yet unmistakably familiar" - Patterson Hood, Drive-By Truckers. "What makes (Will Johson) such a phenomenal lyricist is that he opts for the simplest language when painting an abstract picture - Ben Gibbard, Death Cab for Cutie, in the NY Times. "These resonant fables of half-loved underdogs, essentially preposterous scenarios reported with apocalyptic seriousness, call to mind the last two Flaming Lips discs... The band hugely rawks here in an unprecedented approximation of their live show, oftern summoning the moldy hearts of Mould and Hart. Hell a harnessed Cobain twang even surfaces.