★★★★★
Quicksand's pedigree didn't matter in 1993. No, in 1993 they were just another loud rock band in a wave of major label rock bands that, yes, got major label deals primarily due to the success of Nirvana. The band's hardcore roots weren't important to the suits; they were looking for the next Nirvana. Everyone was.
Like many bands of the era, Quicksand's initial run pretty much came and went with a whimper...
- www.punknews.org
2013-07-03
★★★★★
Attempt to pick apart the puzzlingly named genre known as post-hardcore and you'll likely find yourself with a handful of random strands that only loosely tie together. There'll obviously be DC titans Fugazi and those they helped to nurture (Jawbox, Shudder to Think et al) along with lesser-knowns like Bastro and scads of other odd, awkward, stylistically-different acts all laying claim to the pigeonhole...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-10-01
★★★★★
And so Quicksand released Slip and everything seemed a little different. It was 1993 - one year before Kurt Cobain swallowed a mouthful of Remington and two years after punk allegedly broke. Hardcore's Youth Crews were suffering from a spot of biological decline and required something slightly decelerated to get angry to. Amongst punk's wilting complacency and Seattle's slow-broiling illegitimacy, missing links began to occur...
- thequietus.com
2012-09-27
★★★★★
It was Quicksand's misfortune to miss the prog pantechnicon by a vital year or two. The South Wales quartet released their sole album in 1974, by which time Yes had lost their rudder in a Topographic Ocean, ELP had more people in their road crew than the population of entire principalities and Dr Feelgood were about to hit the town on Canvey Island with short hair and even shorter songs... If Quicksand's timing was unfortunate, signing to Pye's Dawn subsidiary compounded the felony...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-12-05
★★★★★
Quicksand is the most influential band never to be acknowledged as such. You won't listen to 1995's Sick Of It All CD and go, "There's Quicksand," and the new Civ record won't force you to think "Ah, I hear Walter all over that." But Quicksand influences the punk scene with their complete originality. Emo-core kids, hard-core fans, straight NYC punks and even college elitists all know lead singer/guitarist Walter Schreifels...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Quicksand is an octave-jumping,semihardcore band from New York City. Its singer, Walter Schreifels,has a fetching Kurt Cobain-like catch in his bellow that makesearnestly uttered Quicksand demands like "Speak your mind!" sounddesperately important on Slip. Quicksand is derivative, but at least itsoperative influences ? Helmet and Fugazi ? are highly agreeable ones. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Originally released in 1973 on Dawn Records. "Here's another pair of Davies brothers, but with a very different kind of approach. Hailing from Wales, Quicksand played melodious, guitar-based progressive rock, which is better than many of the sought-after rarities in this field. It features tight playing, excellent vocals and exquisite melodies. Includes 'Hideaway My Song,' 'Sunlight Brings Shadows,' 'Empty Street, Empty Heart,' 'Overcome The Pattern/Flying' and others.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
It was in April 1990 that Revelation Records, the independent record label known at
the time for accommodating the brightest contributors to the New York City hardcore
scene, released a landmark four- song EP. The recording, which was the collaboration
of four individuals known collectively as Quicksand, didn't subscribe to the
traditional, often chaotic hardcore sounds associated with Revelation artists, nor
did it completely abandon them...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2008-07-30
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