PRESS QUOTES
“That record (The Zipper) was so heavy for me and Kim and Lee…It was this propulsive guitar instrumental that was just breakneck…They had a big influence on me…The music is way ahead of its time."
Thurston Moore from an article by Dan DeLuca Philadelphia Inquirer“Astonishing...While the rhythm section churns furiously, David First peels off a series of scrambled guitar lines, precise even when he's improvising. His diagonal riffs are marvelously untraceable (Surf-rock? New-wave? Heavy metal? Free jazz? Serialism?), and somehow these dense compositions inevitably come out sounding like party music. It's clear this band ranked with any of New York's much celebrated no-wave acts.”
- Kelefa Sanneh New York Times“...(a) triple-shot cappuccino joyride, whose rush of sharply angular, jagged, terse guitar shards and lean, surging, snappish rhythm work is like unto a blessed union of late '70s arty Brit-punk (Mekons, Fire Engine) and the early Ventures. ” -
Mark Keresman Signal to Noise "The Zipper is perhaps one of the great rock and roll singles of all time…” Dan BuskirkWPRB-FM (Princeton U)/Rate Your Music
“You may cheer the noise of the reunited Pixies. But you’ll cry once you hear the Notekillers.”A.D. AmorosiNY Pressviews
“An influence comes home to roost.”
Jon Pareles NYTimes“A furious instrumental trio…loaded with tuneful guitar-bass-drum maelstroms avant garde spy themes that rock. Killer.”
Time Out NY
“Rumbling, minimalist late-‘70s Philadelphia trio the Notekillers connected the dots between free jazz and punk long before Sonic Youth and their ilk, and presaged the instrumental indie-rock scene by a good decade or so." -
Amy Phillips Village Voice