This Harness Can't Ride Anything is an exhibition of growth gone right, and it should be cherished as such.  Full text...

This is a mature and fully realised album that warrants playing from track one to ten without the need for the skip button.  Full text...

Harness isn't a reinvention of form, but a revitalization of purpose, so solid, brisk, and economic that calling the group a "typical" anything is a flattering assurance of a new kind of contentment in their sound.  Full text...

Post-tragedy, Chicagoans refine their complex sound.  Full text...

Harness doesn't deliver many surprises or follow through on the promise of the debut; it simply refines the sounds they explored and digs its heels in a little deeper.  Full text...

Harness is neither light enough to enjoy nor profound enough to intellectualize, but its few blessed moments of simplicity only evoke that the band is capable, at least innately, of far better things.  Full text...

Their second release has a crossover appeal providing something that everyone will like or at least will find homey and cozy about their music.  Full text...

This Harness Can't Ride Anything isn't sharp enough to wow the pants off anyone who isn't already sympathetic to its sound. It's there when you need it, but doesn't demand much. It's a perfect working-class addition to the indie-rock canon, for what that's worth.  Full text...

Harness is an adequate piece of art that appears to have been chiseled beyond recognition, leaving the listener with dusty remnants of a structured, discernible, and inspired genre that is elsewhere alive and well.   Full text...