Rolling Stone (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he selling -- and sticking -- point is still the dark drama, with shadowy, shimmery textures, agonized choruses and frontman Jesse Lacey yowling away."

Spin (p.99) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the sort of Radiohead-indebted bombast that begs to be played at lease-breaking volumes."

Alternative Press (p.136) - Included in Alternative Press's "10 Essential Albums Of 2006" -- "[A]n exercise in horrifying beauty, bordering on brilliance at every deconstructed song structure..."

CMJ (p.33) - "[With] unabashedly large, dynamic, midtempo bangers lifted by the doubled, loquacious lines of frontman Jesse Lacey."

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.47) - "As the layers pile on, this quickly becomes a tightly honed, huge-sounding album..."

Pitchfork (Website) - "Lacey begs for divine retribution, and some of the most bludgeoning dynamics you'll hear on a modern rock record deliver it."