“Professor Gall have lustily claimed the frayed top hat of the post-Waits debased Cascadian brass band from our dear departed Circus Contraption, and continue every time I see them to stomp and growl their way closer to being the best damn show in Portland.”

““Norman’s songs, which blend a mix of influences from klezmer to jazz and junkyard folk, are also unusually sweet and sincere.” Michael Mannheimer, Willamette Week”

““ With blaring horns and a sideshow barker's twisted way with words, there is a sinister carnival feel to Booze and Guilt (somewhere between Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Bikini Kill's ode to carnies and Mötley Crüe mirrors, "Carnival"), If a haunted midway is your thing, Professor Gall just made your day. If not, stay the hell out of the big top.“ Ezra Ace Caraeff, The Portland Mercury”

“The paths each song goes through can be downright creepy, but perhaps that's his appeal, a need to rip open the human psyche one layer at a time to be able to reveal something about ourselves that we are afraid to admit...."”

““This Portland collaborative effort prides itself on being the good kind of weird as they mash up old-timey, sometimes Vaudevillian but mostly joyous swing numbers…sounds like something you’d find on Tim Burton’s iPod””