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Press Quotes and Notable Acknowledgements--
The Hibernauts "Periodic Fable" named 1 local release of 2007 by STLToday.com, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's official website
The Hibernauts "Periodic Fable" named top ten local release of 2007 by Riverfront Times, based in St. Louis
The Hibernauts "Periodic Fable" CD release show named Best Local Concert of the past 12 months by Riverfront Times, based in St. Louis
One of American Indie Podcast's Featured Artists in 2007
"'Sleeping in Space' is, hands-down, the catchiest song you've heard all year...'Throwing Rice' is another fast-paced indie dream'"
Laura Hamlett, Playback STL
"...the whole album (Periodic Fable) has a smooth continuity with each tune being a piece of a well-constructed puzzle."
Kent Manthie, Amplifier Magazine
"...dynamic...inventive...insidiously catchy...crisp...exuberant...The Hibernauts [are] making some of the most exciting, challenging music around."
Annie Zaleski, Riverfront Times
"The Hibernauts play a strong, stripped-down style of indie rock that comes forth into pop glory...on "Periodic Fable"...their superior musicianship and arrangement skills here are why the band ultimately succeeds on "Periodic Fable". Each of the tracks here could conceivably be a single."
Neufutur Magazine
"'Periodic Fable' [is] fast synth-pop riddled with post-punk, pop-rock, and grand choruses. [The Hibernauts] plunges deep into dance-punk rhythms and use guitars and synthesizers to create a hazy post-Interpol sort of sound...but few do it this well."
J-Sin, Smother Magazine
REENTRY: The perilous moment in which a spacecraft is hurled back into the Earth's atmosphere at blistering 17,500 miles per hour, whereupon the crew must determine the best angle of approach to dissipate their speed to a safe level, ideally ensuring that the vehicle does not "burn up". Look Mom, no hands!
What an amazing concept… That after months spent sleeping in space - engaging in ground-breaking astronomical studies, waking up every day with no sensation of weight, and looking down upon the only world we know from a viewpoint that only a few dozen have ever enjoyed – that after it's all over, on the way back home, everything could fry up in your face like a cheap firework you mistook for a clove cigarette.
Who knows if NASA has started issuing iPods to astronauts yet, but when they do, you can be sure that the Hibernauts will quickly become standard issue. And why not? There is something about the brimming urgency of their music that would perfectly accompany the experience of plunging toward the Earth, watching the clouds scream past – and maybe a few pieces of the shuttle – because with every ounce of sincerity comes a tongue firmly planted in a cheek. It's these situations in which a sense of humor is required to maintain perspective.
[The HIBERNAUTS can be itemized as follows: At least one guitar is required at all times, though two may be used for dynamic emphasis. Said guitars are to be operated by Jack Stevens and Tom McArthur, both of whom are also responsible for vocalizing an assortment of sentiments, both comic and tragic (McArthur should opt for a synthesizer should the feeling be "right"). Also contributing to the musical and lyrical concept of the band will be bassist Bill Vehige, who should seize any opportunity to take his turn as the musical mouthpiece. The rhythmic locomotive that pushes this musical vessel will be drummer Brett Ramsey, who should play with a speed and vigor that will inevitably teeter on the edge of terrifying.]
So as the astronauts return from Mission 221, plummeting through the Earth's pale blue thermosphere, wriggling along in their safety restraints to the frenetic guitars, the dance-inducing drum breaks, the sugar-coated synths, they'll be looking down at the world they remember, while little spots of time flash before their eyes: The many rock-paper-scissors duels; The Army-Navy game; The first time they saw their ex-girlfriend riding in her new man's convertible…
REENTRY (as defined in medicine): "The return of the same impulse into an area of heart muscle that it has recently activated but that is now no longer refractory, as in reciprocal rhythm." Let's ignore what that actually means and draw the obvious parallel: When a rocketship full of spacemen are careening back towards the planet they call home, simultaneously staring their past and future squarely in the eyes (assuming that's possible) - all the while hoping that decompression won't keep them from missing the next Hibernauts show - they're really just coming back to heart of it all.
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