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SOUND PROJECTOR - 'Powered-up atonal guitar licks and insane time-signatures led by a drummer who’s doing his best to restrain his rubber-band arms and legs. Though they start off somewhere in the mode of The Stooges, they soon take a detour via post-punk abrasiveness and wild dynamics, only to slip into another side-road where sweet melodies, major-seventh chords and even introspective wistfulness are permitted. When they do all these things in the course of one single tune, it’s fairly staggering... Fine Work!'

THE SKINNY - 'Falling somewhere between the cracks of mathrock, progressive blues and post-hardcore, this London trio display their competence through rapid-fire interplay, off-kilter string bends and unpredictable rhythms that oftentimes teeter on the edge of collapse.'

SUBBA-CULTCHA - 'Raw and visceral yet tighter than some cheap boxer shorts I once bought; wilfully discordant but somehow, somehow, melodic. Shield Your Eyes are pushing at the parameters of leftfield rock ‘n’ roll, like all the best bands they retain a primitive edge.'

AMERICANA UK - 'Shield em' is an essential piece of deconstructive, progressive blues. A traditional line-up of guitarist/vocalist, drummer and bassist and a loose adherence to 4/4 beat on most songs is merely a starting point for something much more explorative, experimental and explosive.'

FAZER - 'What the album requires is a patient critic. Just as The Sex Pistols, early Nirvana, or a Henry James novel – Sheild Em relies on a different pacing that you can only come to understand with a little time to find their rhythm and once you do, you will smile to your self knowing you have discovered an album that works to re-code musical semiotics... It will make my personal top ten this year with ease.'

COLLECTIVE ZINE - '...a huge splattery mess.'

RESONANCE FM - 'Very good indeed... a nice little ditty...'

BABY BLAUE - 'Tricky rhythm and tempo changes line up next to broken fragments of blues, retro-beefheartsche patterns and dissonant tones'

JAMES ALLSOPP: Reeds

ALEX BONNEY: Trumpet

MATTHEW BOURNE: Piano and Gongs

DAVE KANE: Upright Bass

TOMMY GREENHALGH: Percussion

ANDREW PLUMMER: Vocals, Electric Guitar

With special guests:

HELEN EVORA: Vocals

BILLY JENKINS: Electric Guitar

JASON WHITE: Violin

*In addition to this already sturdy cast guitarist CHRIS SHARKEY (Acoustic ladyland, Trio VD, The Geordie Approach) is now also a permanent feature of WSR’s live set.

THE WIRE- ‘Third One Rises twists the noble craft of songwriting into a dystopian mindfuck’

ROCK-A-ROLLA- ‘This is the sound of Captain Beefheart being toasted and poked by pitchforks in Hell while an unholy melding of The Magic Band and John Zorn’s Naked City hoot up the most cacophonous skronk-fest ever heard in those hideous, fiery pits... what an incredible creation'

JAZZWISE- 'a hysterical dose of genuinely 'out' free-jazz. and riding over the top of it all is plummer's remarkable baritone voice: by turns rough and growling, oleaginous and oozing, deranged and threatening'

REAX- 'Original? Unarguably...the vibe of an after-party around a gypsy-caravan campfire … once the psilocybin kicks in.'

DIE SHELLSUIT DIE - 'Like all truly great records it rewards the listener who is willing and able to persevere. A record this ambitious succeeds or fails on the strength of its players. Fortunately, the musicians on Third One Rises are more than up to the challenge.'

SOUND PROJECTOR - 'odd arrangements, leaving no space unfilled with many a creak and lopsided rhythm. The abiding impression is of a peg-legged mariner accosting the hapless listener... Very good'

SUBBA-CULTCHA- 'Delightful genre-bending... Plummer unconventionally and unapologetically slams different genres together with total disregard for the listener, but by god does it pay off’

JAZZWISE - 'The honey-and-razor-blades voiced singer/composer: andrew plummer's world sanguine report are a multi-headed beast of a band, boasting some of the freshest new talent on the uk scene including fraud's james allsopp, trumpeter alex bonney, the supremely deranged virtuosity of pianist matthew bourne and leeds bassist dave kane. They all join together on plummer's heartrendering wonky pieces, that sound part new orleans brass band part mr bungle to spellbinding tragic-comic effect.'

AMERICANA UK - 'imagine Fiddler on the Roof falling off the roof and landing on the local Oompah band'

JAZZMANN -‘...WSR’s remarkable début album is not for the faint hearted... lyrical concerns are dark and disturbing and the musical content accompanying it lurches from free jazz through skewed waltzes and tangos to modern classical, avant rock and much more besides’

THE GUARDIAN - 'Tom Waits-meets-Napalm Death specialist'

RESONANCE FM - 'very original, very odd time signatures and a very, very strange way of singing... look out for this guy- I'm sure he is gonna go far'

JAZZWISE - 'Think David Lynch getting drunk with Hieronymus Bosch in the bar of the hotel from the shining. with nightmarish lyrics plumbing the darker depths of the psyches and evocative song names, it is clear that Plummer has a writer's way with words.'

FINANCIAL TIMES - 'control, range and virtuosity... Plummer’s deep bass an edgy mix of Wagnerian menace and Tom Waits husk... menacing lyrics and hammy theatrics... the irony of Dadaism with the anger of improv, with a hint of Weimar Republic decadence.'

TIMEOUT - 'Plummer is a raggedly brilliant singer... '

VORTEX - 'all the despondency and antagonism of the most disaffected and alienated elements of western counter-culture'

JAZZWISE - ‘…extremely tactile avant-electronica that makes full use of mind-bending stereo production, just perfect for headphone enjoyment.’

THE WIRE - 'meatgrinder magicians'

PLAN B - 'Leverton Fox stake out the relationship between more idiomatic improvised music, noise and electronica, but do so using a deeply enjoyable vocabulary that, despite the impressive pedigrees of all members, seems at all times full of the edgy joy of discovery'

RESONANCE FM - '…an absolutely awesome album…'

THE WIRE - 'Leverton Fox successfully create an elaborate, working interrelationsihp between the immersive and the intrusive.'

SUBBA-CULTCHA- 'Writhing in its discontent, disarming in its disregard for structure and rhythm yet surprisingly enjoyable in its catharsis, this is for people who see sound improvisation as valid an expression as pop music. Count me in.'

EXCLAIM- 'Country Dances is an intricate assemblage of sounds, a hyper-real adventure in texture'

DIE SHELLSUIT DIE - ‘Remember where you left your ears because it is unlikely you will have arrived prepared... The wealth of musicianship that this trio exude is quite staggering’

DISCORDER - '...intermittent jazz-style percussion and echoing trumpet augmented by thin layers of gritty feedback, swirling synthesizers and samples from field recordings. It is these songs that prove the band’s already ambitious approach to musical catharsis.'

SOUND PROJECTOR - '...warpoid sound of this one is slowly winning me round...the Foxsters have not lost touch with the keystone of live playing and interaction, which underpins all of these oddities...'

LOWCUT - 'Clever album, this debut from London-Berkshire based trio Leverton Fox, terribly clever'

CYCLIC DEFROST - 'Spacious, spacey experiments in subtle stereo trickery and sonic minutiae... think early Cage and Stockhausen meeting Mouse on Mars, stoned, with added drums'

ROCK-A-ROLLA- 'Their improv scuttle definitely has enough hooks, crooks and crannies to intrigue...'