"The San Francisco trio alternates chunky riffs and a plodding rhythm section with dreamy melodies, sudden screams and a voice that coos, "I want your soul." The forbidding effect is something like early Red House Painters' pretty moans set to the downcast punk seething of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead."
- Lars Gotrich, NPR Music

"...moody, guttural yet syrupy opus that plays with the Pink Floyd-coined idea of 'delicate thunder."
- Stereogum

"Candle' is straight fire."
- Stereogum

“It’s like Grizzly Bear took a dip in the grunge bath and we want to jump in. Every part of this song-the composition, the lyrics, the feelings-is a multilayered mélange that’s hard to shake.”
- The Deli Magazine

"Record of the Week" for EP
"...some of the most beautifully executed shoegazey dreampop we've heard in quite some time...one of our favorite recent local discoveries"
- Aquarius Records

"Balms ride like three young magi or wisemen offering treats more rare than gold, frankincense, and myrrh, taken from the arms of blissful slumbers"
- Impose Magazine

"Top 10 Albums of 2014" for EP
"One of the best underground bands in town."
- The Deli Magazine