“The mood is mercurial, lively, open to flight but also firmly grounded in its convictions.”
- Naturalismo
"Sometime last Fall, when the leaves were barely hanging on to the branches of the trees back East, my old friend Jeff Thrope (who now helms the excellent blog Cold Splinters out of Brooklyn) hipped me to Family Band’s Miller Path LP using brevity: he simply stated I needed this music in my life."
- Aquarium Drunkard
"The music is spare, minor-key and wintry, evoking the best of early Cat Power, Beach House and even Lightning Dust. Kim Krans’s voice is haunting, gliding ghostlike over delicate, finger-picked guitar, singing sad lullabies and warning of bad things to come. The song “Fantasy” breaks my heart every time I hear it"
"There’s a dynamic at work here that veteran bands can only dream of..."
- Camp Revival
“Their album, Miller Path is full of otherworldly folk songs enhanced by guitarist Jonny Ollsin’s slowed metal guitar flourishes and singer Kim Krans’ husky, world-weary voice. The songs are about the uncertainty of growing older, and although it sounds plain, the uncertainties that come with living in nature in a place that you’ve created.”
- The Fader
"They've branded the music 'heavy mellow,' which is fair shorthand for the Family's fixation on folk-flecked tunes fronted by Kim's even-keeled ice queen vocalisms and wound into place by Jonny's dialed-down but inevitably metal-edged guitar lines. Married since 2006, Ollsin and Krans built a cabin the Catskills and recorded these songs there; airy and eerie, spacious and windswept, these tracks couldn't have been built elsewhere."
- Stereogum
"The aptly named husband-and-wife core duo of Family Band hail from New York, but their music sounds more suited to their venues of choice: on porches, in barns, around bonfires, and sometimes in the city. On 'Fantasy', they round out the mellow sound of Kim Krans' dusky voice with some flecks of lap steel and almost no percussion beyond the plucked acoustic guitar accompaniment."
- Pitchfork
“…This David Lynch-ian one [Fantasy] is possibly their most spectral offering.”
- Nylon Mag
"Recorded in upstate New York by a few friends, the new Family Band record is a revelation, and it couldn't have come at a better time… Over on the east coast I imagine they're lighting bonfires and telling stories and fixing the old barn together while we on the west coast can only dream of such things."
- Music for Robots
“From their cabin upstate, they record dark folk music that wrestles with their relationship to an expansive place they are trying to make into their home from the ground up. On concept alone, it’s romantic and enviable, but the music itself is also substantial, deceptively simple and worth spending some time with.”
- The Fader
“Family Band's song "Hatred" will paint your walls a faded grey and welcome all the lonely ghosts to a slow dance. The song loops soft moans and drum rolls while Krans' even-keeled voice sweeps over. They've branded their music "heavy mellow," which nicely describes their eerie mountain music.”