Coltrane Motion : No Well OK Maybe Just A Little- Organ (UK) . April 7, 2005
You can always count on something interesting if it is on the Datawaslost label. Coltrane Motion is the Chicago-based trio consisting of Michael Bond, Matt Dennewitz, and Pete Ziegler. The band's tunes merge components from various genres of music.. eventually ending up sounding something like a modern British techno band. But that is meant to be taken as a compliment, because No Well OK Maybe Just A Little is a very smart and intriguing little four song EP. The first cut ('Pi is Exactly Three') is absolutely intoxicating and as catchy as Hell. The band's throbbing beats, odd keyboards, and unusual vocals make their music an upbeat trip. This is one of those EPs that leaves you thirsty for more... (Rating: 5+/6)- Babysue . April 2005
Deviously inventive beats and melodies.. Always intriguing, always enjoyable.- Aiding & Abetting . May 2005
This is neat electronic pop at its finest, actually exploring genres like dance and rock rather than staying within the boundry of their bubble. Definitely worth checking out. Although indie dance rock has almost become a cliché these past few years, if there's any new artist in the genre worth checking out, it has to be Coltrane Motion. On their debut EP, No Well OK Maybe A Little, moody guitars are combined with dancefloor beats and hip-shaking electronics to create some of the most inspired local rock 'n' roll heard in quite some time.- Illinois Entertainer . October 31, 2005
Fleshing out Bond's home recordings with compadres Matt Dennewitz and Pete Ziegler, Coltrane Motion has evolved into a crafty, catchy and exploratory Indie/Electro powerhouse, creatively molding samples and other electronic decorations into an effective and imaginative mˇlange, augmented by ranging guitar, textural atmospherics, dancefloor-ready beats and a truck-load of anxious, unforgettable hooks. Like vintage kitchen-sink Beck without any of the gimmickry and overt silliness or classic Post Punk/New Wave with better technology, CM's latest four-song EP, No Well OK Maybe Just A Little, shows the trio is too arty and provocative to be lumped in with the current '80s revivalists. But Bond and Co. capture the quirks and spirit of that generation's innovators better than any of the chartbusters. Sounding like a cross between something like the Gang of Four and Beck, Coltrane Motion, an indie pop trio from Chicago, mixes a variety of styles on its new EP, No Well OK Maybe Just A Little, just out on Cincinnati's Datawaslost Records. At one minute, the band's going through herky-jerky motions in "I Guess the Kids Are OK" and at the next, lead singer Michael Bond is crooning over sparse breakbeats in "Pi Is Exactly Three". Top-notch songwriting skills hold the whole thing together.Cleveland Free Times . January 4, 2006
Collides glitchy guitar and machine fuzz with staccato emo-talk vocals..Village Voice . January 11, 2006
The notion that the computer-as-instrument would change the face of music resulted in tons of perfectly listenable 90s art-pop groups getting lost in a manifesto-induced fog. Well, the revolution won't be bit-torrented or RSS;d either. Most of the pretentious digital zealots have toned it down in the past few years, leaving groups like local trio Coltrane Motion to jury-rig their own software, bash around on guitars, and make joyful noise free from the weight of such awesome responsibility. Last year's four-song EP, No Well OK Maybe Just A Little (Datawaslost) hops and burbles and yearns like a defrosted New Order letting out a primal side no one knew they had.Chicago Reader . January 20, 2006
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