"Big thumping stadium rock with as much panache as humanly possible...
potent riffs that crunch in with as much vigour as recent Queens of the
Stone Age records...The Wow Signal have made traditional rock interesting again, and it's about
time. All kick and no kitsch. "
Lee Puddefoot, Artrocker Magazine
"The Wow Signal capture a solid, quite refined post-punk sound and funnel it through an addictive modern rock glaze"
Milton Trebuchet - Manchester Music
"Infinity's Lobby sounds like a depressing place to be - like sitting in the car-park outside purgatory for an eternity. And yet this little power-punk number is anything but grim. With fantastic, retro vocals that remind me of an unplaceable 70s frontman and excited punchy guitars, it's got real direction and pace, as singer Andrew Mangold shouts "look at me!" before jabbering something inaudible. If this is the lobby, I can't wait to get inside."
Alice Wagstaffe, Artrocker
"Sometimes, you just get an overwhelming feeling that a band is standing on the verge of very big things, it's exactly this kind of feeling that washes over you when listening to Shoreditch based indie rock newcomers, The Wow Signal. Debut single, INFINITY'S LOBBY is an impressively epic sounding calling card, a swirl of near psychedelic guitar grooves and dark menacing intent, the band sounding equal parts Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Joy Division and U2."
Mike Bond - UK Music Review
http://www.ukmusicreview.com/reviews/the-wow-signal-infinity
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"Raw but strangely beautiful."
Oliver Primus – The 405
http://thefourohfive.com/2008/12/04/the-great-405-singles-ro
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"Splintered shards of Iggy Pop, Ziggy Stardust and The Fall dust The Wow Signal’s reference list, with a righteous rock n roll delivery you can’t go wrong!"
Jeremy Chick – Subba Cultcha
Review: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/singles.php
"...Infinity's Lobby by The Wow Signal doesn't sound dated. It sounds "classic". It could come from '78, '88, '98, '08 but isn't stuck in any one time. The production has polished it without setting it in any decade. OK, you've read I mentioned INXS. I will bet that The Wow Signal like people who influenced what came after the 70s, same as INXS, U2 and Simple Minds did. Bowie and Bryan Ferry inform singer Andrew Mangold's delivery, Iggy informs the band's swagger. Every song is a ballad or a belter, there is no filler. This is certainly not what I listen to in 2008 except when I take a bottle into my garage and revisit my twenties. But it is done with panache and an intoxicating swagger. To me this is just as "real" as The Racontuers 70s rock "homage" (and much purer in it's dedication to the groove and little more). This is Q reader rock, but not everything Q likes is shit (just a lot of it). If The Wow Signal were American they'd sell enough for decent drug habits and be dampening knickers in Enormo Domes instead of the Purple Turtle. In fact this would sell in most territories except the UK. Actually make that England. What makes us great pop pioneers also makes us miserable snobs (j'accuse myself as much as anyone). The track that seems to exemplify them, towards the albums centre, is Still Hunting, a track that says nothing to me about Shoreditch (their current home) and a lot about the (imagined?) wide open spaces of America, the bars, the railroad crossings. The belief in something greater, perhaps more obvious and tangible than experiments in sound offer. The big IT of Bullet The Blue Sky, the only acceptable track on The Joshua Tree, the feeling of being IN a movie that could only take place in the States. Go to their MySpace and listen. You'll get the idea pretty quick. If it's not for you I understand - but if you feel a strange urge to shake your hips I'll see you at a future gig with a couple of my unreconstructed mates and a large JD and coke. Sometimes Rock & Roll IS all you need, whatever gets you through the night – just KEEP on dancing."
Indie Dad
www.myspace.com/indiedad
"A noisy foursome from Shoreditch’ cried the press release, hell we thought better pop it on the old gramophone and investigate more. Seems that Indie Dad (the Blame it on the Parents head honcho) has already beaten us to the punch on this anointing his assessment with words and phrases such as Iggy, swagger, Bowie, Ferry and 70’s which though acutely observed alas leaves our review somewhat five words light. That said ’infinity’s lobby’ is a bit of a spiffing cut, upfront - direct - and about you in an instant, laced with a retro sheen of decadent wantonness scarcely witnessed around these parts since Gold Cash Gold and packing riffs so vintage in design they may well have picked them up from an e*ay auction listing. And lest we forget to mention the small but crucial detail that it’s a fierce some cavalcade of well heeled incendiary laced spiked struts that appear to have been wired into the national grid thus ensuring momentous outbreaks of seizure stricken pogo-tastic goings on whilst simultaneously finding itself drilled with a flame retardant exterior that suggests a curious after hours listening obsession with Eddie and the Hot Rods, the Who and Sweet. Flip the disc for some neatly fractured and wasted and out of it blistered blues courtesy of ‘purr right’ which unless our ears do deceive possesses telling signs of ‘Diamond Dogs’ era Bowie whilst lashed aplenty with copious amounts of wah wah effects - frankly a guitar institution that surely is deserving of being reclaimed from the baggies. An album slated for release next year looms on the horizon. By the way great name don’t ya think - named after a narrow band radio signal we believe - one for the pub quiz enthusiasts among you I suspect."
Mark Barton – Losing Today
Review: http://www.losingtoday.com/tales.php?id=216
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