"Tackling four Christmas standards and one Hanukkah one to
boot, the snarkily titled collection makes for a fascinating
and darkly beautiful take on a holiday album... With each song
sliding into the next like a mysterious dream, this album could
almost be the soundtrack to -- if not quite a nightmare -- a
Yuletide when dark ice rather than snow is on the ground, and
the clear winter stars are shrouded in heavy clouds."
---Allmusic.com
"[The Lothars] wring sadness and beauty from such instruments as the hammer dulcimer and the theremin. The live improvisations sound like elegies for Martians, or love songs for robots."
---Playboy
"The Lothars do an admirable service for the credibility of theremins in modern music"
---Keyboard
"The Lothars... produce as many weird and wonderful ideas that can be squeezed, whooped, whistled and screamed from these hip retro-electro antiques."
---Alternative Press
"[The Lothars] create a vibe that's simultaneously spacy, silly, and spellbinding... The overall atmosphere is one of adventure, rather than mere novelty."
---Request
"The Lothars conspire to create a monstrous edifice of noise."
---The Wire
"...sort of like Shonen Knife doing Merzbow covers... [The] combination of naive electronics, self-conscious humor and gothic horror will no doubt incite a horde of imitators."
---New York Press
---Allmusic.com
"[The Lothars] wring sadness and beauty from such instruments as the hammer dulcimer and the theremin. The live improvisations sound like elegies for Martians, or love songs for robots."
---Playboy
"The Lothars do an admirable service for the credibility of theremins in modern music"
---Keyboard
"The Lothars... produce as many weird and wonderful ideas that can be squeezed, whooped, whistled and screamed from these hip retro-electro antiques."
---Alternative Press
"[The Lothars] create a vibe that's simultaneously spacy, silly, and spellbinding... The overall atmosphere is one of adventure, rather than mere novelty."
---Request
"The Lothars conspire to create a monstrous edifice of noise."
---The Wire
"...sort of like Shonen Knife doing Merzbow covers... [The] combination of naive electronics, self-conscious humor and gothic horror will no doubt incite a horde of imitators."
---New York Press