Echo Curio review (LA): "Mysterious traveling man, a fan of Sun City Girls and Sunn O))) who manages to also channel that dark passion into acoustic instruments and coming away with a sound closer to Nick Drake if he had been born in the 80s and started playing with Sonic Youth. Now, I know I dropped a lot of names right there, but if you heard this guy's new record 'C'mon Eschaton,' you'd forgive the hyperbole."
Good Records review, August 2008 : "Singer songwriter with an amazing sonic colorization to every song as if he were a painter.
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Echo Curio review (LA): "Mysterious traveling man, a fan of Sun City Girls and Sunn O))) who manages to also channel that dark passion into acoustic instruments and coming away with a sound closer to Nick Drake if he had been born in the 80s and started playing with Sonic Youth. Now, I know I dropped a lot of names right there, but if you heard this guy's new record 'C'mon Eschaton,' you'd forgive the hyperbole."
Good Records review, August 2008 : "Singer songwriter with an amazing sonic colorization to every song as if he were a painter. What Elliott Smith would have done if he were in Sonic Youth. Blake Mackey has been playing shows since he was 15 years old and recorded his first album when he was 14. He is now 22 and developed a cult following from relentless D.I.Y. touring for the last 7 years along the south and west coast, playing Dallas, Austin, Portland, Seattle, Port Townsend, Denton, Red River New Mexico, L.A., New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Eugene, and has built a cult following with some notable supporters such as, The Polyphonic Spree, Salim Nourallah, Zach Nelson (Formally of Hella), Zach Delorto of Danava, and many others. Blake has had albums out on three Record Labels, Sun-Rise Records USA, Discos Buen Pony in Spain, and his own D.I.Y. record label architect records"
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