Best New Band
Alternative Press, Staff Writers' Year End Poll

"Monorchid's debut, Let Them Eat..., is Chris Thomson's album. Not that the music provided by the band is mere background, but the group's wiry, staccato, stun-gun songs are dominated by Thomson's Johnny Rotten / Mac McCaughan / Mark E. Smith snottiness. (On the new Diet for an Underdog 7-inch EP he even squeals, "Guitar!" before a solo and gets away with it.)"
-- Christopher Porter, Washington City Paper

Their label calls Monorchid "a firecracker of a five-piece." Hot damn! I'll say. Let Them Eat... explodes out of the stereo like a cherry bomb in a crowded closet... Don't bother trying to save your ears by lowering your stereo. This shit breaks glass at any volume... As gripping as the music is, it's Thomson's power drill vocals that really make this mule kick. Sounding precisely halfway between a whiny seven-year-old kid and a grumpy 75-year-old man (and I mean that as a compliment), Thomson spouts off on societal ills with the zeal of an anarchist with a pipe bomb in his backpack. With its collective tongue stuck out too far to be anywhere near its cheek, Monorchid is the antithesis of typical slacker rock... It's all heart and guts, as genuine as can be.
-- Jon Carson, SCRATCH magazine

and the label says . . . Monorchid are solid citizens of the post-punk DC community that includes bands like Girls v Boys, The Warmers, Blue Tip, The Make*Up and Delta 72, but they're better... A LOT better. They're more dynamic and swing more than Circus Lupus, but have the same force and Fall-like staccato energy.