‘What’s immediately impressive about DCW is their honesty… Musically sounds like Lou Reed hupping darkly over The Buzzcocks’ most famous song while Dan Treacy sits alarmed in the corner..’
—Drowned in Sound
‘The music just drills into your head like the best Quickspace tunes used to do, with that relentless repetitive drive, cool & loose, hypnotic & sinister….’
—Norman records
‘Sarcastic, sardonic and articulate… I can guarantee once you’ve heard this, it will stay in your head all day.’
—Music Week
’Dark and twisted as the name suggests’
—London Metro, May 2006
‘I Do Know You Love Me’ [is] thrilling for its freshness, its full-on musical self-confidence and some brilliantly witty lyrics – in which the wit came from expressing dangerously honest thoughts rather than from any desire to be amusing
—Michael Gray, author of 'The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'
'A superb name for a superb 'antifolk' band led by the seemingly mild-mannered but ferocious lyricist Tom Mayne'
—London Lite, November 07