"As though reacting to the faceless nature of contemporary music, this debut from Oakland, California's Mass takes the trend for musical strip-mining to its logical conclusion: raping twenty years of trends to create a fierce, angular hybrid that speaks to the cynic in us all. No-Wave, post-punk, thrash metal and math-rock are crafted into a sheet of purposely 'difficult' avant-garde fury... this is pure dissent, a statement that verges on the political yet avoids parody or empty moralizing. It's what we always imagined punk was really like, a blast of fetid air blowing away the cobwebs of conformity. The Mass speak the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is." -- Logo Magazine (UK),