"One of the most amazing debut albums of the last few years" - Happy Days Are Here Again

"4REAL in the same way Richey Edwards once was" – Condemned To Rock 'n Roll (album of the year, 2008)

"Musically and lyrically this album is a gem" - Salad Days Music

"Like a storybook, with each song featuring moments that should keep the listener enthralled throughout its entire duration." - Obscure Sound

"Theatre shot in widescreen, a polished, tortured slab of 21st century melodrama."
- How Does It Feel To Be Loved

"High concept art-pop with echoes of St. Etienne, Black Box Recorder and Momus.. Tuneful, obscurely literate, just the sort of thing there should be more of in pop." - Narc Magazine

"an impressive debut - 4/5" - Scotland On Sunday

"A loose love story of boy meets girl, boy and girl traverse the fourth dimension, boy loses girl, three decades later, boy gets girl back. Navigating urbane pop is nearly as difficult as paradox-free time travel.  Vanilla Swingers pull both off, keeping its concept from collapsing into rock-opera excesses while crafting cerebral pop tunes." - Aversion.com

"A truly beautiful record. Vanilla Swingers sucks you in and it's almost impossible to escape this record's grasp; the sweet sound of seduction has never sounded so dangerously good." - First Coast News, Florida

"What might be the secret weapon is how what initially sounds like a gentle demi-folk act turns rapidly into a quite varied sound.  There's everything from snaky post-punk guitar chime and understated MCing (in classic Neil Tennant style!) on I'll Stay Next to You to the slow, dub-meets-synth string crawl of The Way She Walked out the Door.  Perhaps the common thread is how fluid their stylistic shifts are within each song as much as song for song." - Allmusic

"Die neuen Black Box Recorder?" - Coast Is Clear