are SING SINCK, SING Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria

"The duo’s first album together is practically blinding in its radiance. The result feels as overwhelming as anything in the Godspeed/TSMZ canon… “Fight the Good Fight” and “We Will” are companion affirmations of perseverance—tender, comforting folk hymns that sound like they’re being beamed up into a UFO. As is the case with all the songs here, Menuck’s voice is only intermittently legible, his words momentarily acquiring definition like a radio station your car stereo catches as you’re driving between cities. But on SING SINCK, SING, that obfuscation is a feature, not a bug. As Menuck and Doria remind us, there is still beauty in this world—you just have to cut through the dark clouds to find it." – Pitchfork (7.8)

"'Fight the Good Fight' thrusts listeners into an angelic squall while an ominous presence lumbers below; 'A Humming Void An Emptied Place' finds radiant common ground between competing oscillations; and 'Joy Is on Her Mount and Death Is at Her Side' wrings hands over a murdered forest while trying to acknowledge the new life sprouting from the ruins. These are tearful anarchist synth sermons for a landscape all but completely fucked by snake oil slingers, their demoralized goons and the noise surrounding them, and our next steps forward won't be easy. Even 'We Will' — the album's parting song that "INSISTS THAT WE WILL WIN" — is framed in bleak terms, Menuck crying out while he and Doria power down the machines in a gloomy pulse. But the noise surrounding our most glaring problems exist precisely because there are still voices seeking to challenge the status quo. Through reckoning with it, Menuck and Doria found a new creative partnership, and each return to are SING SINCK, SING provides that crucial reminder while offering a shoulder to cry on." – Exclaim

"Its swells of sounds, all interlaced and tightly wound around each other, produce a dizzying effect as the washes envelope you with their persistence and doggedness. All of the album’s five tracks share the same aural characteristics of minimalist and pulsating synth drone, languid vocals and swirls and ripples of mechanised undulations and the album feels like a complete body of work rather than a collection of songs... A triumph of an album." – The 405

"This is some of Menuck’s most vital music in years. The opening polemic-as-hymn “Do The Police Embrace?” suggests an amped-up take on Bruce Springsteen’s cover of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream” – an entreaty to the oppressor’s humanity that swings like a pendulum between dread and rapture… In 2019, instead of doubling down on the gloom, are Sing Sinck, Sing plants little flowers of optimism. Perhaps there’s a model of sorts here: when hope’s all but lost, collective action and dogged persistence might just offer the long path to victory.”" – The Wire