On Amy:

"I've been listening to Amy X Neuburg's "Residue"... I think I'm in love. Neuburg is a new kind of multi-threat composer... a wonder of sampling, overdubbing, electronic manipulation of live sound and computer-driven beat patterns... a fabulous singer... exhilarating originality. Nobody else sounds like Amy X. Emotionally, her music is as complex as real life. Neuburg's mix of despair, sex, joy, ennui and high energy are viewed through an observant eye of someone who's decided that, all things considered, the world is more comedy than tragedy." -- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 2006
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"Wow! That was the one simple word that best described the one-woman musical hurricane that was Amy X Neuburg last night... If diversity, creativity, and flat-out ability were all crimes, Neuburg would have been locked up years ago. Her music should be played to children who express an interest in music as a lesson in what is possible... Sometimes high art like this can disappear into itself. Not so with Neuburg. Her diverse array of sounds (vocally and electronically) are matched by both her intelligent and emotionally connected lyrics and conversely her sense of fun." -- Otago Daily Times, New Zealand, October 2004
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"She loops her voice and sings over her alter egos until she's a whole chorus, an opera, a circus act... Far more musical than Laurie Anderson and a hell of a lot cheerier than Diamanda Galas, Neuburg has scoped out her own territory in the gulf between pop and classical." -- Kyle Gann, Village Voice, March 2004

"Neuburg wields a phenomenal voice in which one gleans hints of the dominant art singers of our day: [Meredith] Monk, Björk, Kate Bush's passion, Laurie Anderson's intimate brilliance... with a vocal potency that recalls Diamanda Galas. She's a singer as poised as she is powerful, a composer whose songs veer from canonical precision to offhanded clout." -- Alan Lockwood, New York Press, March 2000
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"Amy X Neuburg is a star -- a brilliant one... A classically trained vocalist, a composer, an electronic musician, a poet, and an entertainer... Satirical, profound, humorous, and sexy... Experimental but always under total control... Uses the looper in the most skillful and artistic manner I've yet seen... She should be playing for huge houses. She deserves to be at Carnegie Hall. The kids should see and hear her on MTV." -- Electro-Music.com
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"On the big stage of the Palace of Fine Arts Theater she was nothing less than brilliant. Her stage persona transcended the gadgetry of loop and sample, taking flight when she stepped away from the flashing, glowing electronics and took the stage, coming closer to the audience... Neuburg has an artistry and potential that are truly compelling and may prove to be bigger than the local fishbowl can contain." -- San Francisco Classical Voice on Amy at Other Minds Festival 2003
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"Neuburg`s talents as songwriter, singer, arranger, studio technician, and keyboardist distinguish this remarkable release ... If the world was fair, 'Songs' would win this Bay Area performance artist acclaim as America`s answer to Kate Bush. No, even that isn't fair: Neuburg is a major player in her own right, a unique voice in the true sense of the word." -- Keyboard magazine

On Amy & Men:

"['Sports!'] is nothing short of a quirky, intelligent pop masterpiece.." -- All Music Guide
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"Neuburg makes music whose dizzy mix of complexity, accessibility, and intensity are matched by few. For frame of reference, begin with Frank Zappa ... Laurie Anderson would be proud ... Neuburg pulls it off with virtuosic aplomb. The Men ace her arrangements with humor and discipline." -- Musician magazine

"['Sports!'] sounds like an opera diva and a barbershop quartet getting stinko on a 30th century cruise ship." -- East Bay Express

"Amy X Neuburg & Men serve up an hour-long aural buffet that could easily be the soundtrack to an as-yet-unmade movie from the next millennium ... Describing them as eclectic would be an understatement -- 'Utechma' is downright out there." -- East Bay Express

"Try putting ketchup, bananas, cream cheese and fruit loops on your next hamburger!... Add 13 more toppings and you start to approach the diversity and indescribability of what Neuburg has to offer ... A dramatic Broadway beach party drum circle ... Gosh, I think this was 'Art'!" -- Addicted to Noise

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