Rolling Stone (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he selling -- and sticking -- point is still the dark drama, with shadowy, shimmery textures, agonized choruses and frontman Jesse Lacey yowling away."
Spin (p.99) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the sort of Radiohead-indebted bombast that begs to be played at lease-breaking volumes."
Alternative Press (p.136) - Included in Alternative Press's "10 Essential Albums Of 2006" -- "[A]n exercise in horrifying beauty, bordering on brilliance at every deconstructed song structure..."
CMJ (p.33) - "[With] unabashedly large, dynamic, midtempo bangers lifted by the doubled, loquacious lines of frontman Jesse Lacey."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.47) - "As the layers pile on, this quickly becomes a tightly honed, huge-sounding album..."
On 2006's THE DEVIL AND GOD ARE RAGING INSIDE ME, Brand New continue the evolution that took them from the quaint punk-pop of their 2001 debut through the expanded indie rock textures of their 2003 follow-up. This isn't to say the New York quartet have abandoned edgy rock, their knack for melody, or their emo-tinged aura, but rather that these elements have been sublimated into an aesthetic that favors sonic nuance and emotional intensity. A full quantum leap ahead of earlier efforts, THE DEVIL AND GOD ARE RAGING INSIDE ME shows Brand New growing well past the categories that once defined them.