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Feb 7, 2011Whichever road they happen to tread next, it'll be worthwhile following in their footsteps.
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Feb 18, 2011Let us hope this isn't a flash-in-the-pan success and that subsequent releases are just as good.
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MojoApr 12, 2011Brighton trio take a walk on the dark side. [Feb. 2011, p. 104]
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Feb 14, 2011Theirs is a music of doomed melancholy –- plaintive, dark, and uneasy.
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Feb 8, 2011Throughout the exquisitely mournful Violet Cries, Rachel Davies issues Cassandra-like predictions of woe and mayhem, while Thomas Fisher's filigree guitars shimmer like sunset on a lake.
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Feb 7, 2011It is an album that gives up its charms slowly, but its painstaking attention to detail, dark shadows and languid depths will see it become an essential companion for many sombre souls in 2011 and beyond.
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Feb 7, 2011Revel in the gloom.
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Feb 7, 2011Like following a serial killer's trail of devastation, you're gripped until the end, no matter how grisly the conclusion. Bewitching.
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Feb 7, 2011To immerse yourself in 'Violet Cries' is more akin to entering a Ye Olde English fairy tale than some trashy vampire fiction, like discovering a weighty, weathered tome that lies under several thick inches of dust and recounts a distant age.
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Feb 9, 2011While there are a few moments where Violet Cries' potent atmosphere turns meandering and atonal, this is still a promising and often captivating debut from a band with a bold sound.
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Feb 14, 2011They've certainly got the pure sound of it nailed down. More than most mini-genres, goth demands ambiance-- the mood is everything, and on this front, Violet Cries succeeds tremendously.