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Classic Oz underground swamp-rock and raw, roots-touched classic song writing via Neil Young and Bob Dylan – Kelsey Munro, Mess + Noise.
Snarling guitars with lazy bluesy vocals one minute and filthy fuck-off rock n roll the next – Mar Garvey, Drum Media
SIGN OF THE TRIANGLE (REV023) PRESS
’Triangle’ has all the dirty twang of the blues and country meets punk formula of the Gun Club and The Scientists, but it doesn’t live in the grimy shadow of its influences – Justin Norrie, The Age
There is a darkness on this album that will appeal to fans of the Beasts of Bourbon and The Drones, but The Holy Soul are very much their own band – Chris Scaddon, J-Mag
Top 10 LPs of 2005 - Murray Engleheart, Drum Media.
The Holy Soul’s debut long player has plenty to commend it…'Mary’s Tainted Lemonade' proceeds from a simple power strum that owes more than a nod to Link Wray’s Rumble into a potent angst-and-acid ridden slurry of guitar and feedback – Patrick Emery, Beat
Very convincing, very dark and very alive – i94bar
There’s such a naked and bleeding immediacy to what’s caught on disc that it’s hard to resist – Luke Martin, Fasterlouder
An evocative record offering vague traces of everything from Howlin’ Wolf to Link Wray to Neil Young to the Birthday Party – Arlo Stecyk, Blunt
Storms through your ears and kicks the furniture around in your brain. Mad, sad and bad in a very good way – Daily Telegraph
Le dernier disque Australien que j’avais eu en main se nommait the Bad Machines et distillait une pop electro proche de Nelly Furtado. C’était de la pop, mais pas de la pop australienne, pas de la power pop. Je ne sais pas pourquoi je dis ça puisque Holy Soul ne font pas non plus de la power pop. Ils font MIEUX! - Le Blob (Morlock), Every Day Is Like Sunday
It amazes me that something so generic exists. I struggled to get to the end of this without jumping out the window, but then again country isn't really my forte. I challenge someone to make an interesting country album, something original, something with heart that didn't just fall out of the stencil. I can't even fathom people sitting around in a room patting each other on the back after making this kind of music, let alone people listening to it. Try harder -The Buzz
LOVE HAS LEFT THE CITY LIMITS (REV007) PRESS
The Holy Soul pulled it off with ‘Jesus Caught the 5.19’ on Illustrious Artists’ stunning sampler ‘Playing Favourites’, and none of the other four songs on this EP suggest it was a fluke – i94bar
’Psychotic Notions’ gets near the essence of The Holy Soul live feel, the messy self production gives it a murky garage punk feel – Blunt
And just as you’ve settled in that drawl with a reverb twang – and there have been few better examples of that in the last half-decade than the already previewed ‘Jesus Caught The 5.19’ – thinks crank up to get really messy with ‘Psychotic Notions’, complete with the perfect running-out-of-breath harp solo – Drum Media
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