2006 September 8,Peter Margasak,“Pan Sonic”, inChicago Reader:
The music is precise but never sterile--no one zeros in on the elusive grime and ghostly humanity in digitalia like Vainio and Vaisanen.
2003 November 28,Peter Margasak,“Oswald Berthold”, inChicago Reader:
Their long, apparently improvised streams of digitalia are at times grating and self-indulgent, but at its best their work is densely layered with arresting details and packed with abrupt and exciting shifts in texture and rhythm.
1996 July 5,Peter Margasak,“Spot Check”, inChicago Reader:
Their debut album, the aptly titled Music for Nitrous Oxide (Sedimental), stands out against their native region's more typical roots-rock machinations, but a similar primitivism rears its head via the group's lack of digitalia.