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"Sounding like the vocal offspring of early-'70s Ray Davies and Transformer-era Lou Reed, and using Luna-like guitar lines to bring the songs to a slow-burn boil, Allen and company have crafted a fine Indian Summer-pop record with an instant classic feel -- classic rock, if you will, but in the best sense of the term."

John Schacht, Creative Loafing

"File under: boot-gaze. Charlotte mainstay The Virginia Reel plays the kind of music you slow-dance to with a creepy stranger 20 minutes after last call. Conversely, it could just as easily be the music you throw ... Pretty and plain enough, and with enough smooth AM hooks to get you through those first cups and assuage that metaphysical hangover. Chief Virginian Neil Allen's Malkmus/Pavement-twist wrestles this 6 song EP away from the full-on West Coast 70's pop-rock thing. There are a handful of triumphant trumpet bursts from ex-member Kristin Garber on a couple tracks and some mid-song "Pink Moon" ish piano bliss on standout "Middle of the Night." "Thole whole world's asleep/so i'm trying to be quiet," Allen croons at the beginning of the track, laying out the band's modus operandi. Enviably, nonchalantly, The Virginia Reel keeps Charlotte's great songwriter tradition alive."

Eric Deines, Shuffle Magazine