There will never be a wave of Kelley Stoltz imitators and imposters...no one else today could make this record. Thank God for Kelley Stoltz.  Full text...

Stoltz is a vinyl geek with a passion for the pop/rock classics of the 1960s and 1970s and a talent to recreate these sounds alongside his own psych-folk musings.  Full text...

It's the tunes and sounds that make this record worth spinning over and over.  Full text...

Kelley Stoltz is a retro master, a Shaolin monk of the revivification kind.  Full text...

This is an album of breezy melodies, four-on-the-floor drums, plunking upright pianos, and softly squealing guitars, a psychedelic, Technicolor panorama of cartoon waves crashing on hot sand, stoned teens making out in the surf.  Full text...

Stoltz is a pop universalist, and on Below the Branches, he seems willing to absent himself so that the listener can become the focus, so the music can speak for whomever hears it instead of whomever makes it.  Full text...

If only, if only. Stoltz's press release claims he had to choose from a multitude of songs to put together Below the Branches. Taking this as truth, I can only suggest that he slow it down.  Full text...

There's a great, deliriously strange album in him somewhere; let's hope he gets up the courage to drop his influences like the dead weight they are.  Full text...