Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Spin (12/00, pp.220-222) - 8 out of 10 - "...An emotionally stirring achievement....camping out around a couple of notes, chugging leisurely...toward a cacophonous climax..." Q (7/01, p.87) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". Q (12/00, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Orchestral rock elegies...laced with glockenspiels and violins, and bolstered by thunderous drums and scalding guitars....compelling..." Magnet (1-2/01, p.45) - Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000" - "...The music on this double album is very nearly larger than life..." Magnet (1-2/01, pp.90,92) - "...This isn't your father's prog....An exquisitely constructed sound with a sharp punk edge and an anarchist's ear for chaos. High-concept in a Moby kind of way..." The Wire (10/00, p.66) - "...[They] disperse through snippets of Coney Island nostalgia, a shopgirl peptalk, an infirm preacher and an ill-tempered, indeterminate buzz drowning in poorly tuned radio static...The improvising...falling within the beat parameters..." Muzik (11/00, p.121) - 3 out of 5 - "...Impressively ambitious and stupefyingly pompous, it's the perfect antidote to such lickspittle reactionary fripperies as fun or sex." CMJ (10/30/00, p.5) - "...Evokes thundering waves, sky-shattering storms and other preternatual events of Biblical proportions..." NME (Magazine) (12/30/00, p.78) - Ranked #16 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year". NME (Magazine) (10/14/00, p.40) - 9 out of 10 - "...Extraordinarily powerful and beautiful music....It's a world where ever-spiraling crescendos are detonated by 9 musicians..."