The New World Ancients

"From start to finish the debut record from The New World Ancients titled Temporal Beast is a ton of fun for the ears. Production-wise, the album is fantastic and the track list flows extremely well. The singer has a great lyrical delivery layer on a bed of of progressive guitar and that simply captivate and mesmerize you; taking up residence inside your head leaving you on your knees begging for more. The album as a whole is progressive and dramatic. There is an oratory content to the lyrics on this record that tell you a story with every single song. The standout song on the album is “Ceaser!.” If Foxy Shazam, Queen, The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds era), and Gogol Bordello all joined forces I strongly believe it would resemble a sound similar to The New World Ancients. Outside of that combination there is no other band that sounds like The New World Ancients inside or outside of Chicago. They are by far the most original local band that has come across my desk in 2012 and Temporal Beast is the best local debut album I have come across in 2012. After listening to this album, I am a hands down a fan and supporter of this band for life." - Shawn Kellner, Chicago Music Magazine

"From start to finish the debut record from The New World Ancients titled Temporal Beast is a ton of fun for the ears. Production-wise, the album is fantastic and the track list flows extremely well. The singer has a great lyrical delivery layer on a bed of of progressive guitar and that simply captivate and mesmerize you; taking up residence inside your head leaving you on your knees begging for more. The album as a whole is progressive and dramatic. There is an oratory content to the lyrics on this record that tell you a story with every single song. The standout song on the album is “Ceaser!.” If Foxy Shazam, Queen, The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds era), and Gogol Bordello all joined forces I strongly believe it would resemble a sound similar to The New World Ancients. Outside of that combination there is no other band that sounds like The New World Ancients inside or outside of Chicago. They are by far the most original local band that has come across my desk in 2012 and Temporal Beast is the best local debut album I have come across in 2012. After listening to this album, I am a hands down a fan and supporter of this band for life." - Shawn Kellner, Chicago Music Magazine

"You know I don't do this often but when I hear a disc for the first time and by the fifth song I'm saying to myself "I gotta get these guys on my show"...well, I just have to let you know about them. Think a prog rock Talking Heads and go from there. Next show of new Chicago music will be Dec. 30 and The New World Ancients will be featured prominently." - WXRT 93.1 FM

"With songs that are all at once playful, creepy and 100 percent rock ‘n’ roll"
- Megan Ferringer, The Columbia Chronicle (Columbia College, Chicago) - The Columbia Chronicle (Chicago)

"With songs that are all at once playful, creepy and 100 percent rock ‘n’ roll"
- Megan Ferringer, The Columbia Chronicle (Columbia College, Chicago) - The Columbia Chronicle (Chicago)

"It's an appropriately silly title for an album full of fun, wild-eyed guitar rock, tinkling noisemakers and Tom Waits-like theatricality.... aptly compared to Dr. Seuss -- if you dropped his cartoon world in a back alley and funkified it. "
- Katjusa Cisar, The Capital Times (Madison WI) - The Capital Times (Madison)

"It's an appropriately silly title for an album full of fun, wild-eyed guitar rock, tinkling noisemakers and Tom Waits-like theatricality.... aptly compared to Dr. Seuss -- if you dropped his cartoon world in a back alley and funkified it. "
- Katjusa Cisar, The Capital Times (Madison WI) - The Capital Times (Madison)

"...art rock that deftly yanks influences from funk to blues to polyrhythmic worldbeat... The band's album "What Would We Wear Were We Werewolves" is filled with the kind of quirky, witty, new-wave-ish dance rock that might even get the bar's neighbors across the street dancing. "
- Emma Downs, Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN) - Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)

"...art rock that deftly yanks influences from funk to blues to polyrhythmic worldbeat... The band's album "What Would We Wear Were We Werewolves" is filled with the kind of quirky, witty, new-wave-ish dance rock that might even get the bar's neighbors across the street dancing. "
- Emma Downs, Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN) - Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)

"Their geeky-white-guy approach to funk and world rhythms calls to mind Talking Heads, but the quieter moments have a smoky blues feel. The arrangements and production on their new independent EP... are a sort of kitchen-sink psychedelia, alternately funny and spooky. "
- Scott Hall, Nuvo (Indianapolis, IN) - Nuvo

"Art-rock, where have you been hiding? It feels good to listen to something unhinged for a change and this is genuinely playful, unafraid to be ridiculous... bright colours, surreal landscapes, exaggerated mood music, abrupt changes of direction, it’s got them all. "
- David Cowling, www.americana-uk.com - www.americana-uk.com

"Art-rock, where have you been hiding? It feels good to listen to something unhinged for a change and this is genuinely playful, unafraid to be ridiculous... bright colours, surreal landscapes, exaggerated mood music, abrupt changes of direction, it’s got them all. "
- David Cowling, www.americana-uk.com - www.americana-uk.com

"twangy and angry and weird and funny. It presents the challenges and picks the fights rock 'n' roll is supposed to. "
- Frank De Blase, Rochester City Newspaper - Rochester City Paper

"From there, it was a brisk walk ... to Japp’s Annex to witness the loopy edge of the New World Ancients. The Chicago quartet exudes a definite Pop/New Wave vibe, a quirky clockwork rhythm ... with hints of the frenetic artiness of what was known initially as the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. That 21st century New Wave concept was reinforced on “Shape Shifter,” which careened like vintage XTC and Danny Elfman, while ["The Gospel of Ra"] sounded like a Space Rock anthem collaboration between Andy Partridge and Godley & Creme; they even hauled out the brilliantly weird ["The Future"], an old song from Athens, the band that spawned NWA. All four NWA members had all-seeing third eyes painted on their foreheads, which offered just the right amount of creepy fun to the proceedings."
- Brian Baker, CityBeat Cincinnati (show review, MidPoint Music Fest 2012) - City Beat (Cincinnati)

"Back in the day (and maybe the night) there was a band called Athens that attracted a metric ton of great press that made a lot of their lack of traditional structure and bold Art/Prog/Indie shifts and
shivers. After a number of personel moves, Andrew Yearick and Nicholas Chupein remained and relaunched the band as The New World Ancients. It's an apt moniker; a group of old musical souls bringing historical wisdom to a contemporary age while absorbing and reinterpreting its new direction in the present tense. The New World Ancients album, Temporal Beast, is a marvel of yesterday and today." - City Beat (Cincinnati)

"Back in the day (and maybe the night) there was a band called Athens that attracted a metric ton of great press that made a lot of their lack of traditional structure and bold Art/Prog/Indie shifts and
shivers. After a number of personel moves, Andrew Yearick and Nicholas Chupein remained and relaunched the band as The New World Ancients. It's an apt moniker; a group of old musical souls bringing historical wisdom to a contemporary age while absorbing and reinterpreting its new direction in the present tense. The New World Ancients album, Temporal Beast, is a marvel of yesterday and today." - City Beat (Cincinnati)