You probably won't get tired of Lion the Girl by next season.   Full text...

A release perfect for the brooding introspection that comes with late-nights, Lion the Girl also hides brilliant indie melodies, wonderful edge-of-shoegaze instrumentals, and of course Olivier’s own wonderfully creepy vocals.  Full text...

Midnight Movies is a rock trio with just enough mysterious charm to keep the listener engaged.   Full text...

To be fair, Lion the Girl, the sophomore effort from the LA-based quartet, while harkening back to those deep, melodic influences, easily stands on its own as a nice piece of atmospheric work. Gina Olivier’s now fully-fronting vocals (she used to drum too) slip like a velvet glove around the precise noise created by her bandmates. Sometimes sweet, sometimes sour, Midnight Movies strikes a nice chord.  Full text...

On songs like “24 Hour Dream” and “Coral Den” on the band’s fine second full-length album, Lion the Girl, it’s pretty impossible to ignore. But as she proves over the course of the record, Olivier is more of a singer than the Chelsea Girl, with an actual vocal range, and less of a monophonic talker/intoner.  Full text...

The music seethes, like decay in the teeth, causing a listener to wonder what is happening in LA, and causing some, like myself, to continue to stay away for fear of being feasted upon.  Full text...