| Sounds Like | "4/5...Pennycook's urgent voice personifies the collision between the Reid brothers (Jesus Mary Chain) and Guy Garvey(elbow)...the results are compelling"
-MOJO
"5/5 ALBUM OF THE MONTH...one of the country’s most promising new bands - a group who in the wondrously evocative Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues have created one of Scotland’s records of the year" "Make no mistake, after a spin of this sublime record only one word will pass your lips:magnificent"
-THE SKINNY
"Any song that invokes A-Ha, Daft Punk and speed-metal riffage is a certified winner. A gold medal, then, to distorted pop cabal Meursault, who cram all of the above plus thunderclap drums, banjo snarls and a general sense of the devil's own revelry into 'The Furnace': a feat which, by turns, conjures REM, the Arcade Fire, midnight rituals and Ceilidh romps. The Edinburgh rock diviners debut album is chock-a-block with roudy aural confections and gilded treats, from the title track's glam-stomp Wolf Parade homage to the glimmering electro of 'Salt Part 1' via far-out ukelele balladry (Salt Part 2) and homespun laments (A Small stretch of Land).They're mobilised by the swaggering yowl of errant one-man bard Neil Pennycook - a skewed philosopher and startling frontman with a sardonic (yet justified) line in self-belief: "I will call myself an army, I will call muself a king," he wryly-rightly-sings."
-PLAN B magazine
"...strong on existential angst, Arab Strap rage and self loathing...equally capable of the lovelorn misery of King Creosote or James Yorkston... Meursault do it uncommonly well:completely absorbed and unselfconcious, they vitally don't use the noise as an excuse not to write any tunes"
- WORD magazine
"This is a very strong, beautiful album. With 11 tracks in 39 minutes there is no flab. Instead, a wonderfully toned and tuned album that makes you want to hear it again and again."
-17 SECONDS/IS THIS MUSIC
"4/5 Meursault are the most exciting band to emerge from the capital since Found..they variously recall a lo-fi, rough edged Arcade Fire and Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser...it'd be a crime if this fine band got overlooked" "...what mostly makes Meursault stand out from the crowd is the quality of Pennycook's songs, which are simultaneously romantic, intensely bleak and wryly funny"
-THE SCOTSMAN
"What sets Meursault apart from such attempts to meld Warp and Fence is the way they seamlessly switch between programmed elements and the very human pastorally inclined ‘real’ instruments, so the album kicks off with the processed beats and washes of analogue keyboards of ‘Salt Part 1', on which Pennycook makes like Win Butler(Arcade Fire) in the snowstorm...Very rarely less than intriguing, compelling and not a little sublimely surprising, Meursault can rightfully take their place as progenitors of 2008’s last great album.86%"
-THELINEOFBESTFIT
"I’m going to tread carefully here, as I’m in danger of sounding like a real music journalist and using words such as “sublime”, “hypnotic” and maybe even “transcendental”… Long story short: this is a wicked album....this album will definitely be on my end of year Top 10."
-EATENBYMONSTERS
Clasping together starry-eyed electronica with cotton-picking wreaths of banjo plucks and ukulele strums, their debut album Pissing On Bonfire/Kissing With Tongues is an unassuming triumph of glum-pussed Scottish charm..."
-DROWNED IN SOUND
"it’s a killer concoction, sparkling like Ben Gibbard’s Postal Service delivering something dazzling directly to your door. Definitely 1 to keep."
CRACK magazine
"...that rhythm just drives it on through everything as if even in heartbreak it had somewhere very urgent to go."
-SONG BY TOAD |
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