...You could call this punk classical. Fearlessly aware, insightfully political, resolutely defiant, it's ... stunningly intense.
- Lucid Culture

...If more groups played music with such life, power, and passion...nobody would think this music is dead.
- Sequenza21

...Like the promise of a hanging in the morning, sweet light crude concentrates the mind wonderfully.
- A Fool In The Forest

...with the release of their debut CD sweet light crude, [Newspeak] has arrived in a big way.
- Brian Sacawa, New Music Box

...as seminal for the next generation of composers as Icebreaker's debut CD was for this one.
- George Grella, The Big City