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Mars Retrieval Unit in the Press
“Honestly, the music on 2010’s “Two Sides” is far too immense to be flattened into bits and shot through speakers under a roof of any kind. Nay, it’s meant to billow unburdened over expanses of rapt humanity. The quintet’s versatility is ridiculously encyclopedic, flooded with virtuosity in progressive rock, jazz, street-gristle funk, thoughtful vamps ’n’ noodles, gape-maw’d psychedelia, dreamscape boogie — every form possible packed by masters into an interstellar jam.
-Cory Frye, Corvallis Gazette-Times – Read the full article
“With the release of their first album Two Sides, the local band has fully arrived, boasting a rich amalgam of influences and stunning musicianship that would put other bands to shame.”
-Ned Lannamann, The Portland Mercury – Read the full article
“Portland’s Mars Retrieval Unit is a left-of-center sonically ambitious group in the Phish vein, stirring prog rock, jam rock, space trippy music, funk, jazz and even some Bjork-like wanderings into one heady stew that Frank Zappa’s ghost breathed a “Boo!” over.”
-Rob Cullivan, Portland Tribune – Read the full article
“People have been partying for some time now, and the energy in the air is thick. I didn’t realize just how thick the air was until Mars Retrieval Unit finally took the stage. It was so funky in there you could smell it, no holds barred. It seemed like people were coming out of the woodwork. Their fusion of the psychedelic and the funky were a match made in heaven.”
-Ryan Lory, Oregon Music News – Read the full article
“‘Amanita Dream’ is a delicious mix of a rather clean and cool jazz sound mixed with a heavier spacey lilt in places, ‘Osmosis’…is again a clean sounding, leaning almost to AOR, song with some lovely sax playing, also from Chelsea, extending out to ten and a half minutes…’Ares’ has space rock lyrical themes and resides to towards the modern progressive rock side of the genre, consummately professional in delivery and contemporary in feel.”
-Ian Abrahams, Spacerock Reviews – Read the full article