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The WireOct 21, 2016A compelling tribute from one iconic vocalist to another. [Sep 2016, p.59]
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UncutSep 8, 2016It's solemn stuff. [Oct 2016, p.39]
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Nov 14, 2016Alternately haunting, beautiful and tragic, Killer Road is a fascinatingly immersive listening experience that requires no previous knowledge of Nico’s work to appreciate.
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Sep 8, 2016If Soundwalk Collective's music is often lovely but understated, Patti Smith's vocals give Killer Road the pale fire that makes it come alive; she never sounds like Nico, but she ably brings forth the voice of a poet facing her final crisis, and Smith understands that just well enough to communicate it to the audience.
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Sep 8, 2016One can imagine the project’s subject would have ultimately preferred the more understated tracks, concerted in their muted menace--focused on the task of creating a cinematic impression of the unknowable.