The Record Machine

"If there's an album more heart-breaking, intimate and plaintive than Cowboy Indian Bear's Live Old, Die Young, this writer hasn't heard it."
– Absolute Punk

"For a band’s debut, it’s impressive. Ghastly Menace has figured out their own style, but even within it, they show range and depth."
– Audiofemme

Healin’ the Pain is State Bird’s fourth release, third full-length album, second studio collaboration with Ian Pellecci engineering, second release as a four piece, and it’s a huge departure from the pop folk of their earlier work.

"In a just universe, Ad Astra Arkestra would provide the soundtrack for the post-colonial, post-cultural, post-modern experience; genres may have failed, but ingenuity and the heterogeneous persist."
– Demencha Magazine

"At the intersection of Band of Horses and Arcade Fire, with a touch of Bon Iver and an affinity for the xylophone, is Capybara, a Kansas City quartet that has had a busy two years riding the success of their debut album Try Brother and co-signs from Spike Jonze and the Strokes."
– Pop Matters