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Businessmen & Ghosts - Best Album Nominee - Shortlist Music Prize
"Best British band" - Lowdown Magazine
Album of the Month - Rock Sound
"Approaching genius - 4/5" - The Sunday Telegraph
"Pounding techno beats acoustic guitars and soaring melancholic indie with signiture bending krautrock ... most impressive - 8/10" - NME
"Beats and sounds that could easily breach the Beetham Tower roof - 4/5" - Manchester Music
"Mancunian electro rockers turn in masterpeice" - DJ Magazine
"Mammoth album ... so special 5/5" - Subba Culture
"Bright, bold and creative, playful, political and most of all inspired 4/5" - Manchester Evening News
Recommended: Album of the month - NME
"Fluid, sweeping, anthemic ... just great" - Observer Music
"Boundary pushing intense and ambitious - 4/5" - Uncut
"Very weird fucked up goodness, buy this now or you will regret it - 5/5" - Vainzine
"Restlessly invigourating - 3/5" - Q
"The albums breadth and ambition are admirable ... exhilerating" - The Times
"Manchesters WFANFC take the best out of their city and run with it ... surprises at every turn" - Music Week
"A band with a wealth of ideas ... a sound like nothing else - 7/10" - The Music Magazine
"They (WFANFC) blur stylistic boundaries until they're no longer recognizable and gut influences for the sounds useful for their particular purposes and discard the rest with no regrets" - Under The Radar
"Part-way through each disc....there comes a point of realization that what's happening is something very special" - Under The Radar
"Expect whiplash from the constant mood swings... tunes like "All American Taste" seem ecstatic on one listen, menacing the next - 4/5" - Spin
"The band's best bass-driven dance floor bangers and stately, textured landscapes are all here, and there are a couple of fresh surprises, too...
WfaNFC weave woozy atmospheres for an intoxicated ride home bathed in subway fluorescent or headlight halogen...
Businessmen & Ghosts is a long-overdue U.S. document of a band that might just be getting really interesting." - Pitchfork Media
"WFANFC is about both quantity and quality... As their songs shift from noisy shoegaze to cinematic beauty to Madchester beats, we're taken on one hell of a ride...This band should be fucking huge" - The Tripwire
"Sludgy neo-baggy with a more sinister edge than vintage Madchester" - Playboy
"On "Rocket," Working for a Nuclear Free City attempts to solve some of life's most vexing problems. But as the answers get more outrageous, and the lessons get harder to come by, the music's momentum starts to take over." - NPR
"it seems WFANFC have begun to achieve what they originally set out to do:We want to create a piece of work that will stand the test of time and be remembered." - Amazon
"Working for a Nuclear Free City is a band worth listening to, and worth watching out for." - Popmatters
"an almost flawless lucid-dream trip through a thousand fantastical influences" - Stylus Magazine
"a brilliant musical journey through myriad genres and time, folding in elements of British Invasion, '70s rock, post-punk, baggy, electronica, space rock, and even Afro-beat.
"-AllMusic
"It's a splendid introduction to one of Britain's most stunning acts, capturing every side of this multi-faceted gem of a group." -
AllMusic
“it just sounds so damn good.” - The Times
“their mix of psychedelia, krautrock and electronic does sound strange - deliciously so.” - NME
"An invigorating reinvention of the sound of Manchester. Most refreshing." - Q Magazine
“Constantly shifting musical sands during their rolling course, they swamp layers of beauty, beats, spills and thrills that waft you skyward, pull you to the dancefloor, blow your mind and soothe your soul.“ - BBC
WORKING FOR A NUCLEAR FREE CITY's Friend Space (Top 23)
After years of struggling to get it done I've finally finished and my first solo album: "i am me/am i not?" will be available on CD Baby and iTunes by the end of the year.
Hey hey hey! 'Ed! We have a gig on Wednesday night supporting Band of Skulls @ Night and Day - manchester. Would be cool to see you and yours if you can make it?!?!?!?!
Big respect for the excellent and innovative music dynamically expressing the life experiences of 21st century England via a hybid of genres and influences :)
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