"What's trippy about this music is its interest in building a mysterious, lingering mood. Four of these songs are over six minutes long, and they hold their own better than might be expected; such slow and slinky tunes as "I'm Coming Home" have a hazy, lazy charm." -The Washington Post
"If you can imagine something that connects the dots between Palace Music, Low, Ween, Lisa Germano's On the Way Down from the Moon Palace, and Mojo Nixon, you've just approximated the Kingdom of Leisure experience...and it's the most unabashedly album-centric release I've seen in some time...it made me think, and it surprised me, which doesn't happen often. The Kingdom of Leisure deserve credit for that." -Michael Zwirn, Kibbutz Music Reviews, V.31
"Total Heaven, the Kingdom of Leisure. Obviously, it's a match made way up above when Ty Hardaway and Rich Walkling bring their tripgrass sound to the mountains of the Mountain State." -The Washington City Paper, April, 1998
"...then there is a Kingdom of Leisure concert. If you close your eyes you can hear his guitars speak to you in the voice of a great story teller around a campfire. The drums providing the pops and crackling of the fire." -Tourdates.Com. April, 1998. One of DC's top-10 bands to see.
"TKoL has discovered a new sound that won't disappoint. A definite countrified-folksy feel...a soul grabbing rhythm...a raw sound that grabs your attention, that is real. Like America" -DC Music WWWeb
"Look up the definition for tripgrass in the dictionary and you won't find anything. But one listen to the Kingdom of Leisure's music and you will understand the meaning immediately." -The Corridor
"The essence of American country rock." -@NZone Magazine - New Zealand
"...what could you expect from the Kingdom of Leisure but an incredible show. And believe me, they delivered." -Tourdates.Com, March 1998
"The current darlings of Roots-Rock" -MusicSearch
"Mind-bending acoustic music" -NerdWorld
"The Kingdom of Leisure rule" -Washington City Paper, August, 1997
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