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Aug 19, 2015Le Bon and Presley are certainly a potent cocktail and this is one of the most uncommonly satisfying releases of the year so far, whose charms reveal themselves best after a few plays.
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Aug 21, 2015Despite the difference between le Bon’s and Presley’s median outputs, they produce a fresh and rich stylistic centre on Hermits on Holiday.
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Aug 19, 2015Hermits On Holiday is that rarest of treats, a side-project that could be its writers’ day job. Bristling with brio and invention, it sounds as much fun to listen to as its creators evidently had making it.
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Aug 18, 2015The Cardiff-LA pairing might be creatively equal, but the sound they make is beautifully out of balance. [Sep 2015, p.93]
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Aug 18, 2015On Hermits on Holiday they have knocked out nine fascinating tracks with effortless skill.
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Aug 21, 2015Most of Hermits on Holiday is pretty spontaneous and free-form, but it rarely lapses into the stuff of jam-band nightmares.
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Aug 21, 2015Neither Presley nor Le Bon should give up their main gigs for DRINKS, but if they got together now and then to record an album with as much good-natured charm and tricky bits as this, that'd be just fine.
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Aug 20, 2015By the end, it’s more than enough noodling, but you can’t help but marvel as Drinks shred their fingertips.
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Aug 18, 2015The end result is something that's freaky and funny, as rigorously experimental as it is gleefully entertaining. [Sep 2015, p.82]