-"Remember the first day you heard The Suitcase Junket on the radio...his songwriting is extraordinary...This is one of the most exciting records I've heard in years."                        
 -Vin Scelsa of Idiot's Delight on WFUV and Sirius/XM- 


"The magic Matt Lorenz spins is potent stuff…(he) has a knack for finding poetry in unlikely places.  Lorenz conjures the kinds of sounds and melodies you might hear late at night coming from a campfire in a junk yard: wild, brash and often beautiful, veering from one extreme to another."  
 -Mark Roessler of The Valley Advocate


"With a guitar from an oil can and a percussion section hidden inside a piece of battered luggage...he performed his wonderfully passionate roots music, belted forth from the junk he’d stitched together.  All by himself, he sounded like a full hobo band playing on a train racing rhythmically onward."                       -Preview Massachusetts Magazine, July 2011.  See Full Article

-  "A listen to the music he creates reveals a deft touch and a heady knack for assembling sounds" 
                        -The Valley Advocate, October 2010. See Full Article
-  "This is a grandly executed, highly individual effort from start to finish." 
                        -The Valley Advocate, April 2010.  Read Full Review (it's right after the flaming lips review)

-   "His Sever and Lift album will leave you wondering where that strange sound is coming from and where you can find some more."                -The Swollen Fox blog, December, 2010

-  "Two Words: Spectacularly Talented...The performance of his moody, fun songs was wonderfully raw and intimate."
                        -Dette Discovers blog, June 2011

-  "I've always been a fan of Tuvan throat singing but never heard anything quite like his."
                        -0110101001100010 blog, April 2011