ATIC Records - Critics rave about The Witch and the Robot 'On Safari'

The Witch and the Robot have had a fantastic past few months, with their debut release "On Safari" they have had tons of great reactions from the music press. Here's what they've been saying...

“Some sort of freak-folk, pastoral, krautrock mindblow. seriously, SOOO good!...On Safari gives the folk tradition a twenty-first century kick up the arse... The breadth of approach and scale of ambition mark TWATR out as innovators."
Drowned in Sound 8/10

"Great tunes: lyrics at once bizarre and erudite: groovy arrangements. A bit of a punt but I don't think man of you will regret it."
The Sunday Telegraph 4/5

"The Witch And The Robot add something piquant and properly odd to the psyche-folk pot... On Safari is studded with cracked gems."
Uncut 4/5

"genuinely great."
NME 7/10

"It's Twisted, It's charming and it's too good to miss"
Bearded

"On Safari is indeed a delight, fusing its different styles into one tempting whole. It’s pessimistic, pastoral, frantic, psychedelic in parts, and floating face down in a lake of lost desperation – the stuff of which nightmares are seeded."
Head full of Snow

"You cannot help but get absorbed by the music...an enderingly weird and irreverent listen." To Cool to Die 8/10

“As the music gets more intense, so the mood gets a little sinister. It‘s obviously performance art put to music, but so against the grain of typical ‘indie’ careerists it’s a little un-nerving.”
The Cumberland News

“The music started with Cumbria’s The Witch And The Robot. This unfathomably absurdist gang sing of industrial disease and Morecambe Bay tour guide Cedric Robinson - over guitar, flute and volleys of cream pies.”
Review of Britsh Sea Power’s Sing Ye From The Hillsides Festival

“TWATr (their preferred abbreviation, case sensitive) play darkly psychedelic anti-folk with a bit of blues about it, an occasional flute and a large sense of impending doom. It has no close relatives (no small achievement in itself)... were it played by the sort of boring looking beards that normally produce stuff that people call "anti-folk" (whatever that even means), it would still be as disturbing as walking alone across a deserted landscape as the clouds close in and stumbling across a dead body with your own face on it.” 
Cath Aubergine's famous blog

“Putting the projectors to their best use, these masters of mood control conjour a heck of an atmosphere. Described as “Bizarre, compelling, always entertaining” their music is powerful, technically superb, and frankly speaking if they hadn’t assaulted each other with cream pies periodically for light relief, the atmosphere of menace might have become too intense for my comfort “
The Juice ‘Contemporay Media E-Zine’

“One minute they're a mildly threatening Violent Femmes doing film noir soundtracks, the next an acoustic goth Fall with the scariest sounding flute you've ever heard. These comparisons are still pretty wide of the mark”
Manchester Music

“No matter how much you've been told about The Witch and the Robot (or TWATr, of course), they are at least ten times more deranged.”
Fugitive Motel