"Like an itch under skin - no, like skin under the itch. Unsettling and excellent" - David Quantick
"File next to KLF 'Chill out' & Global Comms '76.14', yup, its that good! " - electronic sound magazine
There’s a track here called “Submerged In Non-Thoughts”: a strange dream of a rock show at an exploding underwater nuclear power plant, with drums pattering upon loose loops of luminous ocean flora. The title is perfect. I am enveloped by the sense of tearing through the margins of life, surrounded by the part-formed and helplessly incoherent. The album’s 37 minutes pass incredibly quickly, and my recollection of the experience is immediately very vague. Guitars arcing upward, like whale tails, out of a toxic green sea. Piano keys bobbing upon static and the miscellaneous bustle of life. Repeat listening doesn’t work to solidify any of the sensations here. Each and every time, Phonic Grafts manages to circumvent the harsh, lucid lights of the present tense. It’s either rushing toward me or floating away from me; an implacable imminence or a tang of lingering sensation, arcing over my head like one of those aquarium tunnels: distant, gravity-defiant, unknowably strange. - ATTN magazine