Spare yet big sounding rock with vocals that border on sea shanty/mermaid singing. Rocks like geology ROCTOBER \'sauvages élans surf-punk-garage, consommés lors de rêveries psychédéliques\' - Patrick Ouellet,VOIR Montréal \"cryptic tales riddled with watery dream images, characters who transform into gases or swim through walls... But there’s nothing pretentious about Reverse, the pair’s 26-minute, 11-track fourth album; the mythological metaphors serve often bitter rants. Jacobson sings in a girlish, untutored soprano, and songs hurtle along with garage/psych guitars vying with pounding, uncomplicated drums. The Dagons are contrarians—“How To Get Through The Glass” is a minimalist drone with maxed-out guitars, “Pinafore” is a kiss-off that ends with a hope for a reunion—who make a virtue of teetering between extremes.\" — Steve Klinge, MAGNET Drummer Drew Kowalskis trash-can thump--not to mention the occasional scuzzy synthesizer and sitar-duels with Karie Jacobson\'s sweetly semisane singing, which itself is in constant fisticuffs with her own reverbed, rusty guitar-strumming. Between harrowing battles (It Flies Out, Planchettes Half-Apes, Reverse) lie spooky, mostly instrumental squalls, resembling Sonic Youth\'s Bad Moon Rising just over L.A.\' s desert edge.   TIME OUT NEW YORK  (Eric Davidson)