AMG Review of Spectral Worship

Nitsuh Abebe
All Music Guide

Spectral Worship is one of those rare releases that take familiar, traditional aspects of pop and rock music and reorganize them in a way that's wholly new; the album is a frequently brilliant combination of acoustic guitars, assorted tone waves and other varied sounds, drawing them together into minimal but highly dynamic and well-constructed pieces in a beautifully rustic, desolate ballad style. Even when the band uses fuller, more traditional rock instrumentations, their inventive sense of organization shines through -- it's as if they're using abstraction and experimentation to come full circle back to pop music, and the results are indescribably excellent.