The band are based here in Seattle by way of Austin and are a combination, of parts Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Gallon Drunk and Thee Oh Sees. Main Buffalo Aaron Schroeder, the Austinite, has kind of a dark and mysterious voice that has elements of Nick Cave and Jim Morrison. The album will send sparks out of your music player in whatever format you may favor with it’s in the red distortion and overmodulated vocals. You might think, with song titles like Hymn of the Devil, In the Valley of the Scarecrow and Holly Ghost Haunt that they’re goths. They may be, but they’re definitely more the salt of the earth kind who also know how to have fun. It’s not all fire and brimstone, there are also magic carpets in Gloomy In Us All and BeBop Sing-a-long takes a trip to a bunch of local bars and has a rollicking good time. Thunder Buffalo are a magic carpet ride of down and dirty lo-fi mayhem. - http://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/thunder-buffalo/ Thunder Buffalo is very lo-fi, and slightly grunge. It is a sound that may initially turn off new listeners due to the sound quality they are used to in modern music. I had no misgivings about the band's sound as I've become accustomed to similar music from the aformentioned cousin and garage bands like The Dirtbombs out of Detroit. Still, if you are under 40 and have yet to be introduced to this type of music, I don't think you need much help getting adjusted. Most of these bands have enough of a soul influence that anyone can enjoy it on first listen, and Thunder Buffalo is no exception -- as I write this, my two year old daughter is on my lap dancing to the CD. - http://www.cerebralpop.com/2010/02/music-review-thunder-buffalo.html Thunder Buffalo chew up stubborn guitar riffs, clobbering drums and fuzzy vocals like countless other bands, the resulting songs bely a deft touch and blaze with a hip-wriggling sexuality that few can match. It’s not throwback rock: Black Cat Rising is the sound of a band who know their sonic palette and their sound’s structure – and start bending it into more interesting places. Riffs are taken to repetitive extremes – just a bar too long here, a drumbeat too many there – and a strangely hypnotic drone-garage hybrid emerges. - http://www.anewbandaday.com/2010/01/thunder-buffalo.html