For Carnation

NME (12/30/00, p.78) - Ranked #18 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".
Q Magazine (6/00, p.105) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A muted, minimalist affair, [Brian] MacMahon whispering dark insights and morose reflections over funereally paced drums and guitar lines....makes Arab Strap sound raucous by comparison."
Mojo (4/00, p.96) - "...A wonderful, brooding confluence of uneasy atmospheres....The sound is rolling, loose, rich and spacy, threaded with chimes and drones and understated, circular figures, and generates a queasy intimacy..."
Wire (3/00, p.58) - "...Forms songs around pared-back rhythms, which they gradually flesh out into sweeping, epic dirges, while singer/keyboardist Brian MacMahon's deep husky voice rides their rippling, melodic undertoes..."
NME (3/25/00, p.42) - 9 out of 10 - "...A rich, dubby take on the blues....McMahan sings like a man who's just fallen to earth....This album is the sound of time stood still. And, slowly, it drags you under."
Alternative Press (7/00, p.95) - 4 out of 5 - "...John McEntire's production captures the appropriately sparse mood, keeping a lid on the boiler, letting everything simmer to tension-filled levels with no release."
Magnet (6-7/00, p.81) - "...The expansive, ruminative nature of these tracks lends itself more to quiet reflection than to incisive analysis, there's a lot going on in the airy spaces between the beats and notes....[there is] a candlelight warmth [to] this album's sleepy-time glow."
CMJ (4/17/00, pp.15-6) - "...Uniquely dynamic, minimalist-informed, yet R&B-inspired music....an album of stunning subtlety where the notes that aren't played speak as much as those that are."