L Magazine writes:
“If this was the 90s, there’d be half as many people here,” said Blair Shehan to a thoroughly packed Knitting Factory. He was referencing the music that was being spun between bands, but there was a clear fondness in the room for the punk and post-punk made during the decade in question. The audience—mostly of an age to have seen The Jealous Sound on one of their early-00s tours, or even to have fond memories of Shehan’s previous band Knapsack—fit at times uncomfortably in the space, with some ticketholders opting to sit in the bar and listen to the set being piped through the speakers there. Whether standing in the crowded venue or watching from the other side of a glass wall, however, the audience was treated to a tight, cathartic set, performed by a band for which the “anthemic” tag seems quite appropriate.
