★★★★★
Tom Wilson's atmospheric, sometimes spooky sophomore album, with his band Lee Harvey Osmond, begins with a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's Oh, Linda, which - much like the original - opens with just voice and upright bass. From there, the album kicks into gear with jangly guitar, vibraphone, percussion, harmonica and backup vocals on Devil's Load...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Lee Harvey Osmond is the brainchild of Tom Wilson (of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and Junkhouse fame). A rare larger-than-life character in Canadian music, he effectively reins in his booming voice on this follow-up to 2009 debut . Don't term this a solo record though, for Wilson has corralled a talent-heavy posse of fellow sinners...
- exclaim.ca
2013-06-25
★★★★★
Wow. I wasn't expecting this. This is one of those rare occasions where you really shouldn't judge a book (or CD) by its cover. See, I saw the name of the band. Look at it: Lee Harvey Osmond. Come on, it LOOKS like the name of a former Marilyn Manson guitarist. And the album's called "A Quiet Evil?" Well, obviously we've got ourselves some industrial goth type stuff waiting to be listened to here? Let's make like Prince and rock out like it's 1999. And I was oh, so wrong...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Creeping across your floor like a demented banshee on downers, the collective LeE HARVeY OsMOND is certainly a psychedelic beast of another stripe. The product of Tom Wilson from Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, a few Cowboy Junkies and some Skydiggers, A Quiet Evil is the collective's first release, and it is a wily captive indeed...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02