BEST NEW BAND, Baltimore Citypaper 2008 phut phut
"DUNNO WHO SAW THIS COMING: Lexie Mountain going gut-soul diva--sounding kinda like Patti Smith with her hand planted on her hip--with a sorta funky, partially improvised rock band at her side. Seeing the project debut after a demure solo folk performance by Tom Greenwood at a nearly empty Talking Head early last spring was one of the bigger what the fuck? moments in Baltimore indie music this year. Rehearsed, considered, and more musical substance than spectacle, it just rocked. Yet, it's still as free-form and absurdist as we could hope to expect from a woman who's been slowly forming herself into a matriarch of Baltimore noise." - BALTIMORE CITYPAPER
"Weaving its way through a maze of space junk, waxing and waning like a killing moon, and seeing through a looking glass which peers back into a different time and place while also gazing into the future, Lexie and crew provide utmost listening pleasure for those who are willing to slightly alter their perceptions of what music has been and what music can be. For me this is a refreshing change of pace from some of the minimal musics that are monopolizing the sound scape today, and it's no surprise that the eclectic, but consistent Holy Mountain label has put this doozie out for us to enjoy over repeated listens." -- REDNECK FISTULA
"...tears a hole between 77, 69 and infinity...frayed and twisted takes on a funked up and free-noised outpost of rock. Somebody get these guys and Vibes in the same room for a psych-funk super session!" - RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES
"...this Crazy Dreams Band, I'm told they's full of NWA high security types but I don't care. They manage to keep things percolatin w/enough genuine osmosis that I'm just about this far ( it's close, why, there's hardly any gap at all!-Capt'n Siltbreeze) from buyin completely into their neo-psychedelic glublub. The real highlight is Lexie Mountain... I reckon she conjures up all sorta diva's, from Sumac to Joplin to Linda Sharrock & it's cool to see her takin a crack at the rock format. Actually the vocalist she most reminds me of on here is Ricky Williams & if this lp is the second comin of anything it might as well be 'Sea Of Unrest'. And a track like "Seperate Ways" is filled w/enough blind faith, it's enough to charm me outta my shirt'n flaunt the ol' chestnut's (hairs'n all) alfresco for.....as long as it takes. So be afraid, be very afraid." -- Tom Lax, SILTBLOG
"Crazy Dreams Band create loose, at times manic vocally rich music with enough tuneful elements I can imagine people not usually given to fucked-up sounds getting into them...equal parts glitch excursions, jazzy breakdowns, Janis Joplin belting, and Yoko howling. Which makes it a good place to start." -- STEREOGUM
"" Crazy Dreams Band is the full-on rock outing of Ms. Lexie Mountain, who in the last several years has been the proprietress of one amazing stoned communal public patty-cake session with a rotating cast of ladies she calls her Boys. The CDB's self-titled debut for Holy Mountain finds Ms. Mountain somewhat of an equal leader of a tribe of clamoring sounds instead of free-association voices, and while many people are pointing to Royal Trux as a reference, it all sounds like a less-Euro, mudpit-wallowing Catherine Ribiero fronting a proggier Torch of the Mystics-era Sun City Girls. With someone totally unfraid to put the keyboard settings on "80's". Lexie's croon is magnificent in its melodic setting; there's still a lot of improvisation within the band (which includes Nate from Mouthus/Religious Knives) that allows her to take some flights of fancy, but hearing a much more "composed" element to her singing is a great thing I hope we have some more of in the future. " - WFMU BEWARE OF THE BLOG
"Classic Americana underground rock moves from a new Baltimore-based project that features Lexie Mountain on vocals alongside Nate Nelson of Religious Knives/Mouthus, Nick Becker, Jake Freeman and Chiara Giovando. The sound is kinda like Royal Trux at their most FM-radio relevant, with huge blats of melodic moog defining the foreground while Lexie pulls out her best Jennifer Herema/Janis Joplin stylings (with occasional Meredith Monk-styled detours) and the songs work from a raggedy Suicide/Springsteen/Flesheaters/The Band base that would combine classic, iconoclastic melodies with weirdly deformed two-note keyboard drones and a fried hayseed basement style that is supremely beguiling. Can’t think of a recent release that so beautifully walks the line between classic rock and cultic underground confusion. " - VOLCANIC TONGUE
"Awesome psych-pop confusion that takes the fun factor up a couple of notches... Recommended." --BOOMKAT
"Rythms that tangle you through a free guitarist expressiveness. Tender as long as Cocorosie and experimental as long as Magik Markers with phonetically that make you imagine how it would be if Patti Smith sang in psycho/experimental band! These your come in the brain when you hear the debut of Crazy Dreams Band via Holy Mountain. And as long as curious and if they are heard all them, when them you hear you occupy that finally it is not…" - Not Your Average Music Blog
"A joyous, jam-band racket that stumbles a line between classic-rock-approximation and shambolic capitulation....the most endearing, enduring thing about Crazy Dreams Band: they let it hang out. Where other bands seem impossibly timid, as if their desires to be 'liked' or 'cool' or 'popular' are keeping them prisoner, CDB are unafraid to take a leap of faith. That could've lead them to falling on their face, but, gladly, their debut album truly takes flight." -- Anthony Carew, About.com
"The Crazy Dreams Band is off the chain funk and jamming rock!"
"*laughter* Did they just play a SONG?"
with thick southern drawl, "i dunno... it sounded like daawg toorture!"
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