| Unknown Instructors Press The Master’s Voice (Smog Veil Records) Refreshing, understated, hip, and inspiring. The Master's Voice is raw, un-fucked with real groove. The poetry, Mike Watt's always intriguing bass talk, and a backdrop of guitar weaving all combine to command your attention and evoke a tide of emotions. This is so great to listen to—it's the shit. I hope this is what pop music is coming to. —Michael Davis, MC5/Destroy All Monsters A dream line-up. It doesn't mean it's going to be any good but you'd go a great distance to find out for yourself. It is good, it's great actually. The way the players move with, around and against each other forces them to constantly re-invent the reference point. These aren't "just jams." The vocalists don't just read poetry over the top of it all but immerse themselves in the music. —Henry Rollins Music unleashed with a sonically sly geometric propensity for freedom, a feverish tone explosion poetry, all smashbox and feral, post-rock sonic struts. There are no guide ropes on this one! —Left of the Dial Any fears of sophomore slump are groundless. If anything, these Instructors have crafted an even more adventuresome movie for your ears this time out. —I-94 Bar Anyone who misses the off-kilter recordings of mid-period SST needs this album. —Big Takeover Dissonant but rocking . . . a great album for those willing to hear it. —OC Weekly The Way Things Work (Smog Veil Records) A challenging freeform blast of intelligent noir beat poetry that plumbs the same depths of freakiness that Sun Ra and the MC5 did in days of yore. —Creem We probably need their guerrillas-in-the-midst verse more than ever. Making that righteous-desperation sound we recall from the hardcore of yore . . . with the performances surging organically toward a bracing climax. —Village Voice While this is certainly out-there, cerebral music, it’s not without a groove or sense of humor; but it won’t come easy. This one you have to work for. —Harp It’s not SST 1986 but it’s close. And that means it’s very good. —Arthur A carefully structured examination of Dadaist concepts behind a façade of free-form improvisation, the likes of which might put a smile on the faces of both Captain Beefheart and John Coltrane. —All Music Guide This Unknown Instructors album is . . . damned near perfect. —Three Imaginary Girls I've honestly never heard anything like this. Imagine a head on collision between Captain Beefheart, Funkadelic, Miles Davis, MC5, and the Stooges. —Sea of Tranquility Thank God for the Unknown Instructors.”—LA Weekly It Smokes. —San Diego CityBeat |