Voyager One

"This band of four persons from the Seattle area is doing stuff that very few of the other artists in their city are. This is pseudo shoegazer electro-pop at its finest. Utilizing a stunning array of post-guitar rock instruments including drum loops, samples, keyboards, trumpet and sequences, Voyager One has really hit their stride on Monster Zero. This is definitely an album which is meant to be listened to as a whole; no detaching a song here or there for criticism or praise. As an album that rises or falls based on the ability of the songs to stay cohesive and entertaining, Monster Zero doesn't fail one bit. Rather, the dark tones, the sparse but powerful whispered British-esque vocals and the ability for Voyager One to go from soft to loud and back again in a non-emo/math rock manner makes everything on here click. Reading that last sentence, it may seem that Voyager One's means to an end came by taking a page from the emo guide to success, but never, ever use that phrase to describe them. The elements of success are perhaps similar, but this act falls back on traditional British rock structure moreso than any American guide to rock. With that in mind, there is surely a stoner aspect to the music, not in the traditional pot realm as much as something more ambient, say Pink Floyd-esque. However, if one is looking for musical comrades to Voyager One, think My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and a shoegazer version of Low. As a nice change of pace, this comes highly recommended."
- Kurt Morris - CMJ

"...And where many would fail, Voyager One ultimately succeed, crafting an album with a sound just prickly and bombastic enough to do old Ghidrah justice. Guitars with a half-life of about 10,000 years soar and strafe, while Tony Zuniga's drums flatten the landscape. The whole record sounds like it was recorded in an immense cavern, with a dense mix slathered in huge reverb. For most of the album, Voyager One comprises five people generating as much sound as possible, employing loops, keyboards, guitars, samples, voices, horns, cello, and truckloads of drums... Voyager One delivers a space-rock outing that brings just as much rock as space to your speakers, a balance that's not often achieved. Furthermore, it slaughters their 2000 debut From The New Nation Of Long Shadows, which was already pretty good to begin with."
- Joe Tangari - Pitchfork

Shadows and Daydreams - a film by Projectorhead

"This DVD is an artsy project that combines Projectorhead's rapid fire, cut 'n' slice images to Voyager One's music from both 'Dissolver' and 'Monster Zero' (their prior record). This would be the absolute perfect thing to run in a trendy nightclub or rock venue, as the old station IDs and countdown screens add a trippy dimension to the already spacey music. Images of astronauts collide with old bikini girl footage, Indians, milk maids, '50s twist dancers, fish, octopi, etc. It's a retro-footage blast, and the music simply kicks heinder."
- Michael Pearlstein, THE BIG TAKEOVER issue 60 - The Big Takeover

"Sine Waves' is probably one of my fave tracks at the moment...deep, emotional but [expletive] ace!...'Here' is another highlight for me...some wicked sonic ideas expressed...nice!”
- Fergie Show, BBC RADIO 1 - BBC Radio - Fergie

"Gorgeous is an understatement.."
-Jennifer Maerz - The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

It's tempting to file the surging drone of Voyager One under the rubric of psychedelia, but that wouldn't do justice to the sprawling vision of guitarist/singer/producer Jeramy Koepping and his band, which recalls an empyrean choir, or perhaps a flock of low-end and effects-pedal-wielding angels brushing your cheek.
- Andrew Lentz - L.A. Weekly

"Spacey, ethereal pop...creating a cosmic amalgam full of musical moonbeams...adding a psychedelic flavor to their sonic swirl...Pass the Valium."
- Magnet

"This Seattle band's third album sounds like their best yet - majestic psychedelic space-rock ranging from ethereal, trance-inducing drones to epic rockers that explode with blissed-out guitar noise."
- Don Yates, music director of KEXP seattle - KEXP

"...Under The Radar once called Dissolver one of the most anticipated releases of the year. Seriously, I'd beat down the mailman for it. 9 blips out of 10."
- Cory Frye - Under The Radar Mag