‘Hailing from Portland, this group brings one word to mind: eccentricity… the group achieves a gritty and unnerving carnival feel, as if the Mad Hatter were the ringmaster.’

Full Steam Ahead Article, Matt Hammond & Jennifer Tate ,
Seattle's City Arts Magazine, October 31, 2010

‘With blaring horns and a sideshow barker's twisted way with words, there is a sinister carnival feel to Booze and Guilt (somewhere between Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Bikini Kill's ode to carnies and Mötley Crüe mirrors, "Carnival"), If a haunted midway is your thing, Professor Gall just made your day. If not, stay the hell out of the big top.’

Ezra Ace Caraeff, The Portland Mercury

‘Norman's voice recalls Tom Waits' or Nick Cave's, while the instrumental lineup suggests a killer New Orleans jazz band going interestingly off-track harmonically.’

Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, Concert Preview

‘Norman’s songs, which blend a mix of influences from klezmer to jazz and junkyard folk, are also unusually sweet and sincere.’

Michael Mannheimer, Willamette Week

‘This Portland collaborative effort prides itself on being the good kind of weird as they mash up old-timey, sometimes Vaudevillian but mostly joyous swing numbers…sounds like something you’d find on Tim Burton’s iPod.’

The Source Weekly , Bend, OR

‘The paths each song goes through can be downright creepy, but perhaps that's his appeal, a need to rip open the human psyche one layer at a time to be able to reveal something about ourselves that we are afraid to admit…’

John Book , The Run-Off Groove #133, musicforamerica.com