…Singer-drummer Julianna Bright and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lorinczi…have made a record of “classic” quality. Write It could have shared shelf space with Rumours in the late ’70s; or, in its more pastoral moments, with Fairport Convention’s Unhalfbricking in 1969. Which isn’t to say it’s “retro” in the fetishistic sense, just that Bright and Lorinczi are mature enough as songwriters to make an album that stands outside its own time.  (Willamette Week) Read more…

 

It’s remarkable how the Golden Bears’ sound doesn’t really resemble that of any other band….There are traces of Small Faces in “Goodbye,” and the lyrics of “Wine and Want” (“Rock and roll, am I not your loyal sinner?”) evoke Pete Townshend’s self-referential allegiance to rock and roll.  (Portland   Monthly) Read more…

 

This album is bright, intimate and wise. Whether a love song to a child such as “All the Birds” or a love song to life as in “Lightning”, the latest from The Golden Bears is proof that the Bright / Lorinczi unit is going strong and shows no signs of ceasing. This stern is not taking water; it is producing the very air we breathe. (SF Station, Pulse) Read more…

 

“The Golden Bears recently treated me to the best live performance I’ve seen in a long time.  Vocalist/drummer Julianna Bright exudes a wise stage demeanor and, similar to the early styles of Patti Smith, has a soulful, heavy tone that demands attention while remaining mysterious.”- Willamette Week

 

“A surprise. This is fabulous. Hunt this band down with spears. Net them on the sidewalk. Dig bear pits in their front lawn. BUT, make sure they’re captured alive.” – WW Local Cut

 

“…It’s a gorgeous record, perfectly suited to the vinyl format, with Bright’s absolutely charming cover art and twelve short songs that add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. Songs flow in and out of each other, motifs are introduced, indulged and expanded upon; the result is divided up amongst two sides that are, in some ways, mirror reflections of each other. The album embraces the strangeness of dreams, the comfort of domesticity, the reassurance of love, the fear of the unknown, and the wide-eyed wonder of childhood imagination. It’s breathtakingly good.” – Portland Mercury

 

“…The next 20 minutes are spent in a display of thundering throwback rock that makes me wonder how Lorinczi and Bright manage to maintain parallel careers in music, art, parenthood, and culinary journalism while apparently excelling at all of them…the solid analog pounding of their next century psychedelia seems easily suited to a venue three times this size. It’s the kind of rock and roll you can feel shaking around in your gut and Bright’s drumming pairs so well with Lorinczi’s overdriven guitar that it’s easy to see why the couple is, well, a couple.  – Willamette Week