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"...Listening to The Tea Club just confirms to me there is a lot talent out there. These guys are tight, sing really well and write some very interesting material. As a first recording General Winter’s Secret Museum is a major accomplishment, one they can be really proud of. They really deserve to be signed and heard by a wider audience..."
-Jerry Lucky, author of "The Progressive Rock Handbook" & "The Progressive Rock Files"
"...The Tea Club is one of the few bands in existence today who can truly say that they are completely original. Truly, I have not heard another band quite like them, and in this day in age, that is indeed saying something. This is a prime example of what actual passion and love for originality in music can bring. As far as I am concerned, this is true Prog in it's purest, most valid form..."
-Micah 'Kain' Rollins, ProgArchives.com
"...The Tea Club puts out a surprisingly lush and varied sound... with stylistic electric and acoustic guitar embellishments rare to this genre. In place of endless riffage, gorgeous chording and tasty chiming single-note picking keep General Winter's Secret Museum fresh and original... Each piece is performed with a fiery passion that has the whole affair giving most art-rock bands a run for their money, as beauty and bombast are balanced to maximum effect... Expansive and imaginative, The Tea Club's debut is a solid effort..."
-Warren Barker, Progression Magazine
"...Really good melodic considered refined dynamic prog flavoured accomplished intelligent alternative rock from a young four piece from New Jersey. A colourful band, a considered band and a band with a flavour of their own – refined melodic prog adventure and now and again a breath-taking dynamic. An album that’s rather recommended and an impressive band who could well be making a few serious waves in the near future..."
-Organ Magazine
"...The Tea Club immediately show they have a style of their own... Patrick & Dan share the lead vocal duties and both have excellent voices...
Kyle Minnick’s drumming is essential to the bands sound. With all the changes in melody and tempo you need a talented drummer to keep everything together and that’s just what Minnick does... This is modern progressive rock and it’s exciting to hear that young bands like Black Mountain, Oceana Company, Diagonal, Pure Reason Revolution, Zombi and now The Tea Club are using progressive rock as a start point while adding a lot of new influences and energy to it..."
-Leo Koperdraat, Dutch Progressive Rock Pages
"...Intensely punkish and atmospheric lyricism stitched with dramatic shifts and structured intentionality is the cloth of progressive rock from which this band is made. Rather than recycling the old prog themes, The Tea Club forges new paths and creates a sound that is immediate and urgent..."
-103.3 WPRB Princeton NJ
"...General Winter's Secret Museum is an excellent album, even more if you consider that it is a first album by a group of young musicians. It can easily be compared to good albums by veteran bands. One quality that these guys have that is very rare... they can write and compose great songs. Add to that another hard to find feature... two lead singers that can sing well, and there you have it, The Tea Club has all the ingredients to be a major player in years to come...."
-ProGGnosis: Progressive Rock & Fusion
"...Most prog rock bands, the genre's name notwithstanding, cast their collective glances, stylistics-wise, to the past - too afraid to sound too modern to be filed under "Prog". This New Jersey quartet, the brainchild of singing guitarists Patrick and Dan McGowan, are different, they're living in the intense "here and now" which bares its teeth with the misty, if desperate, march of "Werewolves" where soft passages instill more fear than the preceding onslaught..."
-Dmitry M. Epstein, LET IT ROCK - DME Music Site
"...The two brothers share the vocal position and it's these vocals that give this album its broad appeal, kinda like a head on collision of early REM, Radiohead and The Beach Boys on speed... It shouldn't matter where your taste lies, you should get enjoyment from this album, it's highly addictive... it's hard to categorise them without putting your head on the chopping block, let's just say whatever direction The Tea Club are heading they are damn good..."
-European Progressive Rock Reviews
"...'General Winter's Secret Museum'... is full of chugging rhythms, angular attacks that seemingly come out of nowhere, beautiful acoustic moments, and lovely layered vocals which only add to this band's charm... The imagery created by many of these songs suggests the words are as important as the music which is so refreshing in these days of mindless drivel we are so often bombarded with... This band deserves your attention..."
-Jon Neudorf, Sea Of Tranquility
"...There's hope for the future of prog with this young band."
-NewEARS - New England's Ear On Progressive Rock!
"...THE TEA CLUB have restored my faith in Real Musicians creating Real Music. Deep, complex rhythms coupled with mature songwriting and and a clear dedication to sharing their inside feelings with the audience without falling into the 'Musician-as-savior' stereotype, four individuals who invite the listener to join them in their vision.."
-DJ Mojo
"General Winter's Secret Museum" is a very well done album and I can consider The Tea Club a true "Progressive Rock band" with an amazing musical talent, full of originality and great potential... Brilliant and indispensable work, highly recommendable..."
-Carlos Vaz, Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal - E-ZINE
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