"The guitars are like hot-coiled snakes, the drum patterns seem totally random, and the vocals are almost as unintelligible as Thom Yorke at his most out-there, but damned if this isn't the most captivating oddity to come out of Vancouver this year. "
“Their melancholic harmonies mix in dark, haunting folk and ethereal art-rock akin to Radiohead or Fleet Foxes. Plus, if there were a soundtrack to the Arctic, a set of sounds that properly represented desolately beautiful spaces, this would be it.”
“What Today Brought Me Here sounds like is a sane version of Thom Yorke's The Eraser - and that is meant to be a compliment because Arctic's intense focus means better songs... With Martin's lush vocals and the band's slow brooding build-ups, Arctic are bound to melt even the coldest of hearts.”