Folklore

"Don't let the candy fool you: Signal to Trust's punk blast is like a slab of raw meat against a black eye. The band's debut, Folklore (Modern Radio), bursts forth with a sound that critics in more foolish times would have misidentified as emo. The difference is that in STT's world, wolves are not metaphors for leftist angst. Wolves are real, and they have the teeth to prove it. In Severns's Jack London-like lyrics, animals roam the streets and plot to take over the world. Rivers become waterfalls and, all the while, noise swirls in the distance. Performed before an audience, these songs morph into sweeping anthems, proving that Signal to Trust is one of the best new live acts in town. Severns yawps with his eyes closed tight, Storberg and Biasi move around the stage like they're practicing Falun Gong, and Warnberg makes the kind of gloriously warped drummer faces that could ward off any beast who swigs beers and spits his appreciation from the crowd below." (Melissa Maerz, Citypages.com)