Press:

“The group's second album, Spectrophilia, is chock full of humored lyrics and excellent instrumentation, all sung and played through a filter of booze and grease.”
The Culture of Me

“The Volunteers' Spectrophilia balances its deliberately bare rock aesthetic with a penchant for swaggering between consanguineous styles ranging from the sardonic folk of "Danger Everywhere You Turn" to the misanthropic "Hoogabooga" that plays like an anti-Franz Ferdinand.”
My Crazy Music Blog

“Featuring a pretty cool brand of sleazy-sounding rock, the band has a unique method of music that will find its way into your mind and pretty much camp there.`”
Local Vertical - ELBO.WS

“Spectrophilia still explodes with energy, ferbor, and delightfully sophmoric lyrics."”
Eliza Czander - Quiet Color

“These sincere moments are sparsely strewn between gravelly expressions of booze adulation. The Volunteers occupy an interesting space between idealized maturity and recklessness. They are a worthwhile slice of New York Americana. I can’t wait for their next video”
Frederick Foxtrott

“This is the type of straight-up meat and potatoes rock music that just gets right down to gnarly brass tacks and does the trick in a pleasingly dynamic and unpretentious way.”
Joe Wawrzyniak - Jersey Beat

“They make an old story fresh again, all the while rockin' out. These guys dish out pure animal joy and atomic rage all through this disc. An explosion of punk rock noise and lead singer/guitarist Dan Goddard's evil, menacing (think Iggy Pop) snarl.... That's what makes this a masterpiece!”
Phil Rainone - Jersey Beat

“The Volunteers' self-released, self-titled album serves up sleazy, indisputably wrong scuzz-rock along the lines of the album-opener "Whore," which demands to know, "Whatever happened to sex and drugs? / I don't give a fuck about rock 'n' roll."”
Noel Murray - The Onion