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Press for Wussy (self titled)

• Uncut – Album Review (4/5 Stars) “Recalling a roll call of adventurous boy/girl-styled indie bands – Yo La Tengo, Handsome Family, X – Wussy draws on plenty of yin/yang sexual and existential tension, a charmingly shambling, rough-hewn sound, and an army of alternately droning and jangling guitars on their sharpest outing yet.”
• Rolling Stone - Album Review (4/5 Stars) “mega-tuneful songs that can get under your skin something fierce” – Christian Hoard
• NPR’s Fresh Air – “Wussy: Strong Work, And Not Without Pain” by Ken Tucker
• Village Voice - “Now three albums into a cult career that’s so undeserved that it makes you question not just the music biz but greater cosmic matters, Wussy’s latest beats out 99% of the rootsy-rock/alt-country bands out there, and it still sounds like one of the strongest releases so far in ‘09.”
• Village Voice Feature – “On the Cheerfully Combative Midwestern Noise-Pop of Wussy – The odd couple soldiers on” feature by Rob Harvilla
• SPIN - Album Review (8/10) “For exposing ordinary life’s flaming weirdness, you can’t beat the shabby folk rock on this witty third album.” – Jon Young
• Robert Christgau -  Album Review (Grade A)”This is as brutal a relationship album as Richard & Linda Thompson’s Shoot Out the Lights.”
• PopMatters - “Midwestern alt-country oddballs stay weird, bleak, funny.” – Steven Haag
• Chicago Reader - Album Review “stingingly poignant” – Peter Margasak
• RollingStone.com New Music Report - “Not a weak track on this album” – Christian Hoard
• Crawdaddy - Album Review “[They've] done prouder for that old Southern Gothic, Raymond Carver standby of minor-record storytelling than just about anyone in the 2000s” – Dan Weiss
• KEXP Seattle - Album Review “Their most fully realized work on their 3rd and best album yet.”
• Washington Post - Album Review “Few bands since the Velvet-steeped heyday of the Feelies, Yo La Tengo and R.E.M. have abandoned themselves so completely to the ebbing, flowing currents of keening, droning guitars.” – Bill Friskics-Warren
• Cincinnati CityBeat - Album Review “A culmination of everything the band does well. The definitive Wussy release.” – Mike Breen
• Amplifier –  Album Review “Wussy may indeed mark a turning point in the trajectory of this Ohio-based foursome, but the insurgent stance clearly suits them well.”

Press for Left for Dead

• Rolling Stone - Album Review (4/5 Stars) “Superb…imagine a Yo La Tengo too tight to get cute or far out dispensing a Velvet Underground derivative fluent enough to warm the erectile tissue of anyone with a thing for guitar drones.” – Robert Christgau
• SPIN - Album Review (8/10) “Haunting and exalting.” – Steve Kandell
• Rolling Stone -  Year End Roundup ”Former Ass Pony and his lissome young inamorata show indieland how to write songs, think about God and get together in the back of a van.” – Robert Christgau