:PRESS:
NORTHEAST PERFORMER - Laura Wiley - BOSTON, MA
Ghosts EP Review:
"With echoing melodic vocals and a Killers-like style, the Boston-based group The Honors created a hit with Ghosts EP. A fun, powerhouse rock album, the tracks balance upbeat progressive rock with the singer’s haunting, smooth voice. They have an electric sound that is magnetic and energized throughout the record. Through blending more than one style, The Honors produce a complex rock groove that is a fun ride from start to finish. It’s a must-hear kind of record."
NORTHEAST PERFORMER - Priyanka Boghani - BOSTON, MA
Live Performance Review:
"Their live show was very polished, with one song transitioning in to another seamlessly, or with Heisler making poker-faced quips about the audience, the weather, ect. Their strength is their own compositions with catchy hooks, complex melodies and a strong stage presence. This is a band to watch for their style and originality."
THE WIRE - Matt Kanner - PORTSMOUTH, NH
'Ghosts' EP Review:
"The instrumentalists are solid with Trikakis maintaining a fast driving beat on drums and Nicol ably anchoring the bass notes. Bayardi sculpts the body of each song and dictates the sonic mood, instilling atmospheres of intensity or meditation. Heisler accompanies on acoustic guitar and utters his lyrics in a soaring and forceful voice that is worthy of radio stardom."
BOSTON PHOENIX - Michael Brodeur - BOSTON, MA
The 2008 Newport Folk Festival Mixes it up:
Meet the Honors: a somewhat recently formed local four-piece with a conspicuous love for Coldplayish power pop, a big vat of song polish, and no qualms about admitting in their press material to regularly covering the Bravery. Never have the jawlines on stage at Newport been so defined, the ties so skinny.
AQUARIUM DRUNKARD – Marty Garner -
Music news, reviews, mp3’s & podcasts -
LOS ANGELES, CA
2008 Newport Folk Festival Preview:
Running in the same dark, clean, resigned world of Coldplay and the National is Boston’s Honors. These guys play radio-friendly rock in an inoffensive way, the dynamic kind of sound guaranteed to one day move iPods. Their track “Passing on Blue†is a dead-ringer for a How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb b-side, but “Ghosts†is their real winner; singer Brandon Heisler sounds like a tired Morrissey while the band bashes away behind him.
2008 Newport Folk Festival Performance Review:
Following Fitzsimmons’ performance were Boston’s Honors, whose Coldplay-cum-Interpol songs were a surprise hit. Beneath the layers of seemingly-out-of-place distorted guitars and rawk ‘n’ roll shouts was some of the funkiest drum ‘n’ bass combo work of the weekend, and lead guitarist Andrew Bayardi drew out some squiggly lines as if Trey Anastasio hadn’t been around the day before. The ever-open minded Newport crowd dug it, particularly the slower jams that singer Brandon Heisler introduced as his “folk songs,†and the Honors found themselves signing autographs throughout the afternoon.
