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“The only thing more satisfying is knowing that there are hundreds—nay, thousands—more excellent and fantastic songs out there in the archives (check their website), and even more yet to be written.”
— Pop Matters

“Only a masochistic songwriter would challenge him- or herself to write an entire album in a month… [FAWM is] an interesting site with a variety of good, weird and just plain awful songs. (Even the awful ones are great in a weird way.)”
— Christian Keifer, Sacramento News & Review

“‘Fawmers,' as the Web site calls its contributors, are a group of music professionals, students and anyone with a nine-to-five day job (or not) with little to no songwriting experience.”
— Dani Garcia, The Daily Northwestern

“Since songwriting is by nature a solitary pursuit, being connected to other songwriters also trying to come up with 14 songs helps push the participants along, [founder Burr] Settles says. To keep ideas percolating, Settles says he will periodically post ‘challenges' on the site, such as challenging songwriters to write a song with the word ‘shine' in the title.”
— Rob Thomas, The Capital Times

“Alaskans in the winter have to keep busy any way they can. So besides reading the dictionary and watching ‘American Idol,' it's only inevitable that monthlong challenges would be an appealing pastime… Now in his third year of FAWMing, [Willis] Fireball turned his material into a recently released album, Secret Grey City.”
— Melissa Hart, FBX Square

“Whatever their motivation, these songwriters have taken a unique challenge and succeeded, often impressively.”
— Kiki Schueler, Rick's Cafe

“... By creating prolific, deadline-oriented submission guidelines, inspiration will strike, and musical magical will happen. Though I was dubious of the album's concept, I cannot argue with the results. The songs on this album are all very solid, mostly lo-fi acoustic numbers that are derived from writers who make up what they lack in notoriety with pure talent and heart.”
— Jon Aubin, Verbicide

“Great idea and even better music!”
— Smother.Net

“The singers imbibe styles from Sufjan Stevens, David Gray, Red House Painters and R.E.M. to whip up an impressive array of personally enthused tracks.”
— Wonka Vision Magazine

“From the point of view of a guy that couldn't finish fourteen reviews in a month, much less write and record an entire album, [FAWM] seems like quite an undertaking… Although the artists surely had to hurry to get their work written, recorded, and produced, the sum of all their work does not sound hurried in any way.”
— Justin Wright, The Phantom Tollbooth