Paurl and Mike’s Super Amazing Interview with Delusions of Adequacy: http://www.adequacy.net/2011/02/interview-with-x-ray-press/

“In listening to X-Ray Press’ first full length you realize that music is a journey and these guys are treading around in some new territory.”
-Delusions of Adequacy: http://t.co/CmGXMrp

“Uvb-76 is an eye-opening, creative masterpiece from start to finish, at no point dropping into banality or tedium, and is certainly one of the best math rock releases of the last 10 years.”
- Mxdwn: http://bit.ly/i4bC4j

“There is a lot to this album, but knowing the kind of fanaticism and dedication to detail that fans of this type of music are I’m sure that very little of it will be lost. If this is a sign of music to come in 2011 then we’d all better hold on because it is going to be an intense ride.”
-Quartertonality: http://bit.ly/eM59wQ

#11 Album of the Year. “Thisfantastic bit of grandma-punching intensity is probably the best record I’ve ever convinced myself to leave out of a Top 10 list… Inspired, daring, and other things far too much other new music simply isn’t.”
-Black Hole Broadcast: http://bit.ly/hg6NqC

“Listening to X-Ray Press is like a lecture from a stammering genius: The magic comes in fits and starts, amidst pregnant pauses, but it’s magic nonetheless.”
-LA Weekly: http://bit.ly/e4JRh1

“A- … well-executed thematic goals and musical competence that damn near approaches perfection”
-Redefine Magazine: http://bit.ly/eRBnWY

“We’re now one step closer to the great math-rock album of our times.”
-Altsounds: http://bit.ly/gmuvB8

“These dudes also have a knack for building up twisty, turning tension, and then breaking it with a sliver of totally accessible melody”
-Bend Bulletin: http://bit.ly/gUcAoy

“You cannot listen to UVB-76 one time and ‘get it’. This record is a soaker. Trust me, if you listen to this thing a few more times than once it will become one of your favorites. That’s where I’m at right now. Really enjoying the crap outta this thing.”
-MyNorthwest.com: http://bit.ly/eFbNI3

“It’s always a bit difficult it seems to achieve a bit of originality when you’re trying your hand at this, but bands like X-Ray Press are showing that it can still be done.”
-Built on a Weak Spot: http://bit.ly/eg5YDl

“With that in mind, here’s a little something that’s sure to be enjoyed by those of you who like your music a tad more pugnacious… X-Ray Press manages the coup of maintaining aggression without sacrificing approachability.”
-My Old Kentucky Blog: http://bit.ly/cKJTah

Top Things to Do for Under $10. “Both melodic and dissonant, Seattle’s X-Ray Press has the angular style of D.C. post-punk acts that brings together the hardcore kids and the indie rockers.”
- SF Weekly: http://bit.ly/f0CalI

Anyone who appreciates the cacophonous, unholy union of the Climax Golden Twins and the A-Frames or the arresting experiments of Feral Children should put X-Ray Press at the top of the list of bands to check out. This is not to say that this quartet sound like either of those bands, but simply that they seem to be coming from similar viewpoints. Taking its name from a creative music-smuggling technique used by Soviet Union college students during the Cold War, the local band utilizes their jazz backgrounds to explore and deconstruct classic, Regan-era punk sounds. The resulting Fugazi-meets-the-Minutemen-meets-Coltrane mix is challenging, but enthralling. – Hannah Levin, KEXP and The Seattle Weekly

Seattle’s X-Ray Press rock with controlled chaos. Their songs bluster, pause, bristle, and vroom with unpredictable vigor. The singing’s agitated, the guitars caustic and bruising, the drumming George Hurley—swift and—brutal. Anyone with Slint, Don Caballero, Minutemen, or Upsilon Acrux releases in their collection will find X-Ray Press a welcome addition to this angsty, angular canon. – Dave Segal, The Stranger

Hell yeah. Jumping between jerky time signatures, with a jagged, frequently dissonant guitar opposite thundering bass-lines and fuzzy keyboard melodies, X-Ray Press got down old-skool Don Cab-style. – Jeremy M. Barker, Seattlest.com

What X-Ray Press does, and what made it sound off-kilter to her young ears, is take what might be a perfectly normal song in another band’s hands and teach it to do things normal songs aren’t supposed to do. Time signatures change with each breath, jumping-bean guitar lines swap salvos with a bass that’s moving in the opposite direction and keyboard melodies pop in and out of existence randomly. Even the vocals oscillate between something approaching rhythmic singing and ragged screaming. Somewhere amidst all that juxtaposition is unconventional melody. With a constantly shifting frame of reference, an X-Ray Press song can at any point induce either seizures or hypnotic fascination, depending on whether you decide to pick a sound thread and try to follow it or focus on the whole. – Vanessa Salvia, Eugene Weekly