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DOTR PRESS QUOTES FOR 'BUST THE TRUNK' (2006)

"Supermodel satires, hitchcockian weddings, the mighty "Essence of
Maureen”. Why can’t all greatest hits be like this?"
ROCKSOUND 9 OUT OF 10

"Debut single "Cocaine on the Catwalk" still sounds as unusually brilliant as it did first time around, the sinister stomp of "Rule the Roost" remains a minor late-90s gem, and the more recent "Oh, Bumblebee" is oddball pop personified. Paul Vickers unique vocal whine hovers delightfully through it all, occupying a self-effacing space somewhere between the sound of nick cave and Billy Corgan"
RECORD COLLECTOR

"Their brightly Lo-Fi, keenly felt guitar-pop is usually infectious. Nowhere is this more true than on a collection of the groups singles. From melancholy-tinged "Lisa Box" through aptly titled "Science Fiction Freak" to the anthemic "Cocaine on the Catwalk”, its stirring stuff. Throw in a bonus DVD, and you have a bargain too."
FLUX

"They sound like the cream of American college rock from the last 30 years transposed to the UK at the tail end of Britpop. Frequently compared to the Beta Band being their equal in terms of songwriting. A gem of a compilation, a morning chorus of radio friendly alt-rock"
CLASSIC ROCK

"They aren’t really a band for Top of the Pops; they are for those who appreciate their eccentricities and sly humour. Dawn of the Replicants are the best band no one has heard of, consistently delivering over five albums and ten years"
CLASH MAGAZINE

"Their quirky art rock compositions like the acclaimed "Cocaine on the Catwalk" and "Hogwash Farm" charmed many, John Peel included, and makes a fine assortment of surreal if daftly titled winning melodies"
GUITAR AND BASS

"DotR are one of those bands that, although successful, have always managed to slip under the radar and narrowly avoid becoming massive. And that’s not down to lack of potential, as this collection of A-sides reveals. Twenty-two tracks of cockeyed pop, tinged with punk and psychedelia, which have an innate charm about them, rather like a childs crayon drawing."
FUTURE MUSIC

"Everyone has to buy this; I hear it’s the law"
PLAN B

"Like Colombo, their shambolic and unfashionable exteriors disguise a
keen instinct for murderous riffs and lethal choruses, proving that not
all best of collections have to follow a downward trajectory."
THE SKINNY FOUR STARS

"A clutch of indiepop singles like debut "Cocaine on the Catwalk", "Candlefire", and the David Holmes remix of "Skullcrusher" meant that briefly, the mad mad world of The Reps was almost the norm in indieland. Later there are moments of genius in "Everyone in Heaven (Is Afraid of Heights)" and "Fix the Air" .Then things come full circle on a version of "Cocaine on the Catwalk" to end which only emphasises maybe what ought to have been"
IS THIS MUSIC?

"A decade of frazzled pop - Bust the Trunk is essential."
METRO SCOTLAND

DOTR PRESS QUOTES FOR 'FANGS' (2006)

“D.O.T.R don’t so much plough their own furrow as invent an entirely new kind of farm in which all the livestock speak Spanish and wear funny hats. They are as the hip-hoppers say, on some other shit, and never more so then here...dipsomaniac rumba (liqueur lagoon) lo-fi waltz (pterodactyl) and at least one vitriolic pop classic in Little Driver"
(NME)  press clipping

“Much of the magic stems from frontman Paul Vickers, a loveable gonk? de Vinci of lyrical invention whole stream of consciousness teems with deft wordplay... Liqueur Lagoon is kooky lounge noir, Vickers imagery taking in "a puppy spinning on a sander". Better yet is Oh, Bumblebee, a hook-laden curio packing beefheartian riffing and a jazzy ,waltz-time ending...Fangs is a wonky delight."
(MOJO ****)  press clipping

"In Paul Vickers they retain a singer like a drunk Jagger, and with the likes of Essence of Maureen and Liqueur Lagoon they offer bite-sized chunks of quirky British Beefheartedness with added ace melodies."
(CLASSIC ROCK 7 OUT OF TEN)  press clipping

"Fangs is a lovely record which incorporates nonsensical lyrics, brass bands, unidentified widdly bits and the melodica-driven bacchanalian reverie of Fix the Air."
(Q)  press clipping

"Fangs bares their love of Beefheart, Zappa, general pop madness and 'wonk rock'. It's a winning 14 track affair with beating guitar hearts in Little Driver, Pterodactyl and Essence of Maureen."
(Record Collector)  press clipping

"Fangs marks a decade in the business of mixing Zappa? Beefheart-toned pych rock and New Orleans blues. Paul Vickers strange, strangled baritone is surprisingly affecting"
(Uncut)  press clipping

"Why half of these songs aren’t number one is beyond me...more invention than Beefheart could have dreamt of"
(Flux)  press clipping

"I like Dawn of the Replicants, I like the vibe, the ethos, the attitude, hell, I even like some of the tunes, so, whatcha got for me? Weird me happy you shit-grinning pop-jazz, glam-rock, bumper-car, daft haircut, new man, old man, newman, innovating, thieving bast**ds. They do. They are. "Fangs" is."
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"The album, their fifth over a ten year career, is a voodoo New Orleans jazz-rock-opera featuring a cast of boozed-up lounge brawlers, and surrealist Wild West imagery. Beautifully arranged and produced, musically it spans classic rock, Ennio Morricone, doo-wop, BB King style blues and consistently melodic yet inventive songwriting"
(The Skinny) press clipping

"Fix the air is genuine psychedelic pop perfection. Paul Vickers voice continues to paint him as the bast**d offspring of Peter Lorre and Ozzy Osbourne, but the bands harmonies are getting ever swoonier with age, and the end result is camped somewhere just left of the field where you’ll find the Furries. Bitingly bizarre."
(Rocksound 7 OUT OF TEN)

DOTR PRESS QUOTES FOR 'BUN MAGIC SXSW SPECIAL' (2005)

“the world would be a much better place if we all took time to remember how utterly fuckerly ace Dawn of the Replicants are. "
(NME)  press clipping

Of course I dont mind holding your record up in a vain attempt to gain publicity.
(Elijah Wood)  press clipping

“one of the most eccentric and original bands around"
(Is This Music?)  press clipping

“well known for their madcap on-stage antics involving electric fans and liquidisers"
(The Sun)  press clipping

“Bright and breezy with a fixed smile on its face, yet sinister enough to merit a return visit."
(Rocksound)  press clipping

“Doing America is something every band wants to do at some point"
(The Big Issue Scotland)  press clipping

“Won't Harm A Fly and Hollywood Hills (Revisted) are the kind of sweetly nuts concoctions they specialise in"
(Q)  press clipping

DOTR PRESS QUOTES FOR 'THE EXTRA ROOM' (2004)

“…there isn't another band in Britain making music like this right now."
(Tramp)  press clipping

“A return to form from the Borders finest."
(Observer)  press clipping

“…a never-ending concoction of musical campness laced with wit. In a modern world gone mad, these bastard children of Frank Zappa-esque grandiose are it’s sure-fire remedy.”
(Record Collector)  press clipping

“…tender mariachi brilliance. Probably the greatest institution nearly nobody's heard of, then. Still."
(Rock Sound)  press clipping

“…The Extra Room is full of diverse and innovative tracks ready to challenge your knowledge of modern rock music..."
(Rock Pulse)  press clipping

"Fantastic Scottish pop weirdo's. This band is still fighting for your attention after all these years, you ungrateful bastards."
(Plan B) website

"The Extra Room sees (The Replicants) drawing together sleazy Rolling Stones guitar grooves, the clattering racket of Sonic Youth and, bizarrely, summery pop on the charming Wont Harm a Fly "
(Q)

"Having blazed a trail for British Sea Power and The Coral… it matches the competition for diversity… this album sounds like the best headache you’ve ever had."
(Jack) press clipping

“Free of mainstream influence they’re able to sway, skip and swing their own rhythm, creating beautiful widescreen masterpieces from the darker side of acid-abused pop. Way-out, man.”
(Time Out) press clipping

"Those genuine rock & roll one-offs make a welcome return with their fourth album."
(Music Week) press clipping

Paul’s Top Ten plus Vinyl choice – "one of these records has a grim reaper on the back"
(The Face) Paul’s Top Ten     Vinyl Choice

"Effortlessly brilliant car crash of fizzy garage rock. crazy genius"
(Metro) press clipping

Brilliant, Bonkers, utterly, adorably Replicants music. Their new, wonderful fourth album The Extra Room Shows they're as inexplicably special as ever."
(Scottish Metro) press clipping

Gollum-like streak of mischief and madness. Wicked lyrical humour.. surreal pub-rock songs played with a nod and a wink and a wry, snaggle-toothed grin."
(The Irish Times)

"The Extra Room sees Dawn of the Replicants back to what they do best - writing and playing beautifully crafted songs."
(The Southern Reporter) press clipping

"DOTR do not like to occupy the area known as "predictable". Deliciously inconsistent, but all the better for it"
(Boyz)

Paul picks five tunes that make him cry like a baby.
(Gay UK) top five

"Track two gave me visions of Doug Pinnick flying over the Grand Canyon in red pyjamas.
(Vice) press clipping

"they're back with their excellent fourth album...
(ID) press clipping

“Replicants Want A Beta Explanation"
(The Sun)  press clipping

DOTR PRESS QUOTES FOR 'TOUCHING THE PROPELLER' (2002)

"If you lot have ears or there is a God, 'Dawn of the Replicants' will be
huge yet... their low-slung Beefheart-Velvets-Howlin' Wolf-inflected
noir-pop shanties are the sort of thing Queens of the Stone Age might play
on banjos in a Scottish-borders remake of Deliverance. Their third album,
out now, follows up hits and Peel-Radcliffe raves like 'Cocaine on the
Catwalk' and 'Rule the Roost' with even more moonstruck werewolf-rock glee."
(Bizarre Magazine)  press clipping

"Once signed to Eastwest, where they delivered albums as mad as Neil Young's
mid-Eighties efforts, DOTR have returned and now allow their songs to
breathe. They're still as quirky as you'd wish, but this is a great blend
of mostly mid-tempo songs that range from art-rock electronica to
spaghetti-bourbon Johnny Cash moments."
(The Independent) press clipping

"(The Replicants) rival Welsh wizards, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci with their
wonky perspective and helter skelter sound, described by a fan on their
message board as 'like Narnia but more seedy and danceable'."
(The Scotsman) press clipping

"No group that had produced an album as good as 1999's Wrong Town, Wrong
Planet, Three Hours Late, only to part soon afterwards with the major label
that signed them, could be blamed for feeling sore. Luckily, the founding
Replicants, Paul Vickers and Roger Simian, were made of stronger stuff.
Their comeback album is as unwieldy and breezily brilliant as previous DotR
releases. New collaborators including the splendidly named Miss Hypnotique
and Piano Minx, adding theremin and rhumbaba to Simian's already dense
constructions, while Vickers soars, rasps, whispers and wails, his lyrics as
dark and allusive as ever. Great to have them back."
(The Sunday Times) press clipping

"Stranger than marzipan, the Replicants return from the wilderness with a
single ('Rockefeller Center, 1932') bursting with raw-nerve guitars and
twisted optimism... By the end (Vickers) is whooping like Bobby Gillespie
when he's heard the 'snowman' is in town. If this is what independence does
for you, we should all try it."
(NME)

"The criminally underrated Replicants swish past the Beach Boys, Johnny
Cash, Super Furry Animals, Burt Bacharach, Scritti Polliti, Bob Dylan and
Prefab Sprout, adding their own dusting of poignant gloom and the gallantry
of the loser. Thank God they're back."
(Time Out)

"A more than welcome return of one of the most brilliantly odd British pop
bands of the last decade."
(Night Shift)

"...a batch of cracked anthems for subterranean poets... a suite of subtly
perverse lullabies, the Replicants painting lushly dark dioramas from a
palate taking in warped prog, ugly pop and wild avant-grunge. Age will not
wither them."
(Careless Talk Costs Lives)

"Musical Magpies to the max, the pair (Vickers and Simian) still produce
utterly deranged and warped songs... the Replicants may yet have their day.
(4/5 stars)
(Rock Sound)

"...back with the same murderous intent to chew out the raw, bloody larynx
of pop.. They've turned down the Brutal Stabbing In Glasgow Underpass
pedals, but there's still the sort of lyrics you'd usually hear from
suspicious-looking men on buses ("I'm like a leopard on poppers") and Paul
Vickers' wobbly-voiced way of making pop choruses sound like they're
scratching their way out of a sealed coffin. It's Night Of The Living
Dead-pop and it's coming for your liver."
(NME)

"DOTR break the mould on a genuinely innovative album." (4/5 stars)
'Rockefeller Center, 1932': "...wonderful daftness oozing from every bar."
(4/5 stars)
(The List)

"And what are The Replicants here for? To convince you that there's more to
this music lark than you ever imagined."
(The Big Issue)

"Leaving Town is a brooding Johnny Cash/Nick Cave lament, while Afraid Of
The Ground goes Studio One dub to impressively zonked-out effect.
Throughout, Vickers' braying voice compels, as does the lulling atmospheres
of Smoke Without Fire and Trout Fishing... reassuringly individual."
(Uncut)

"The temptation is to go Yeehaw!"
(John Peel, Legendary Radio 1 DJ)

DOTR: SOME EARLY PRESS QUOTES (1997-1998)


"Dawn Of The Replicants are unique and enthralling"
(Mojo)

"Will challenge every notion you ever held about pop music"
(Times Metro)

"We like Dawn Of The Replicants. We really, really do... melody-mad
popsters extraordinaire."
(NME)

"Always confusing, frequently brilliant, and at their most appealing when
they're most confused."
(Melody Maker)

"A cultural revelation. No less"
(Time Out)

"Their music can be quite ridiculously brilliant and catchy"
(Sunday Telegraph)

"Fast becoming indispensable British eccentrics"
(NME)

"A most unlikely, yet brilliantly exhilarating rock band"
(The Independent)

"Another jumbled collection of richly-sourced mini-masterpieces"
(Sunday Times)

"In these lean times, it's imperative that stuff like this survives"
(Q)

"Leaves you panting for more, breathless that talent like this can still emerge at the end of the nineties"
(Melody Maker)

"The Replicants are unique and enthralling"
(Mojo)

"Another jumbled collection of richly-sourced mini-masterpieces"
(Sunday Times)

"Their music can be quite ridiculously brilliant and catchy"
(Sunday Telegraph)

"Full of unusual angles and odd ideas to conjure with, this is still an album with a hot rock 'n' roll heart"
(The Times)

"Beneath student-friendly wilful weirdness, there's many a pop nugget"
(SKY Magazine)

"Head-spinning left-field rock you can hum in the shower"
(The List)

"Twisted psychedelic rock and Pavement style eccentricity... complete with doolally lyrics"
(FHM)

"No matter what town, planet or time they arrive at, the Replicants have created an instant classic"
(Flipside)

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