Rolling Stone (9/30/99, p.84) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...rock that feels like techno....Gorgeous and wasted, THE CONTINO SESSIONS sounds like blues for space cowboys." Entertainment Weekly (10/1/99, pp.74-5) - "...[their] songs lock into a groove and slowly burrow into your consciousness....With their repetitive guitar riffs echoing against electronics...their appeal doesn't fade..." Q (1/00, p.84) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999." Q (10/99, p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...stands as an attention-grabbing, chapter-closing masterpiece of darkling dance-rock psychedelia." Alternative Press (10/99, p.91) - 4 out of 5 - "...frequently [succeeding] in matching the breadth of its ambitions....THE CONTINO SESSIONS finds DIV evolving into a band who can transcend the divisions between dance and rock cultures." Muzik (1/00, p.69) - Ranked #7 in Muzik's "Albums Of The Year '99" Muzik (10/99, p.95) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...a sepulchral, formidable inner space where the funk is evil, the guitars bittersweet, the vocals plaintive and the basslines beautifully surly. Truth is, a band headed by a dance DJ has just made this year's best rock album..." Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.31) - Ranked #25 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999." Mojo (Publisher) (10/99, p.95) - "...its vision is resolutely bleak, its atmosphere airless and unsettling....[straying] into new areas previously unexplored in dance music. [DIV] have stopped imitating and begun innovating..."

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