"Litany For The Whale is hard to pigeon hold as their influences are so broad. Dolores is an E.P. that showcases the band’s writing abilities and their solid musicianship. I can see this band touring along side bands such as Mastodon, High On Fire and The Melvins and being a huge hit with their respective audiences."
rockandrollazine.blogspot.com
"Hits hard like a claw hammer to the back of the head, serving to make 'em the bleak-yet-ball-busting proposition you'd be hard pushed to ignore."
Rock Sound Magazine
"Litany for the Whale strikes a solid balance on their debut EP, Dolores, finding a comfortable middle between simply blistering, heavy hardcore and more artistic, experimental flourishes."
punknews.org
"Here is a band to watch. If they’re this strong on their debut EP, in both musicianship and presentation, there’s a very good chance that these guys are going to get big. Judging by this record, that’s a good thing."
crustcake.com
"It didn't seem possible but Litany For The Whale have managed to pull off the impossible on debut effort Dolores — they've created something new, engaging and truly weird."
exclaim.ca
"Santa Rosa, CA’s LITANY FOR THE WHALE are as hard to categorize as their cryptic, vaguely unsettling moniker may suggest. Combining the epic, doomy hardcore of Cursed with the crusty sensibilities of Kylesa, their expansive, noisy sound borrows as much from the Jesus Lizard as it does Battlefields."
neufutur.com
"Litany for the Whale has put out Dolores, an album I cannot help but compare to Converge’s Jane Doe. It begins with a couple terrifying minutes of noise courtesy of the Velvet Teen’s Judah Nagler—I think of it as a more ferocious, cracked-out stepsister of “Sartre Ringo,” from Elysium, and makes stronger the case for noise as composition. The rest of the album is like morphine for people raised on hardcore, which is not to say it’s wimpy. Just soothing."
City Sound Inertia
"Litany are a mixed bag of dark charging hardcore, chaotic grit and haunting atmospherics. Exploring the seedy underbelly of raw punk and noisy “post rock” the four piece hit with a wall of sound that smells of booze and tastes of blood."
rockassdick.blogspot.com
"Dolores is a conglomeration of elegiac acoustics, slashing discord, ambient washes and post-metal thunder as transposed through a wash of ’90s basement-show screamo"
Decibel Magazine
"Litany for the Whale klingen ungefähr wie ein Hybrid aus PG.99, Coalesce, Since by Man und Battle of Wolf 359. Allesamt Bands, die ich grandios finde. Ich kann diese EP gar nicht genug hypen. Wahrscheinlich gibt es im Hardcore-Bereich derzeit keine Band die so ein Gespür für Atmosphäre hat, dabei aber nicht auf die nötige Angepisstheit vergisst. Für mich ein Instant Classic!"
borderlinefuckup.wordpress.com
"If you have ever been in love, and were kind of angry about being in love, Dolores should strike a tuned down, distorted chord."
The Northbay Bohemian
"If you haven’s listened to them yet, you need to."
northbayhardcore.com
....more to come, send us your personal review at LitanyfortheWhale@gmail.com
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Today Jef told me a story about a creature made out of unloved and unwanted body parts left behind by the other animals of the forest. These pieces found their place, together, forming a cosmetically hideous, but very powerful beast...
I think that we have found our place.
History will absolve us, something better will follow.
m. conrad
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