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Battlehooch in the Press
- "The bass was grooving, the guitars were jangling, and the sax was smoothing. Which made it all the more surprising when they switched gears and played a song akin to an Eastern European drinking dirge, complete with crying from all the members. Every person in the crowd was moving to the musicÑit was hard to resist. Even after they finished, my foot was tapping to the ghost of their set." - LA Record (Steven Martinez, September 16th, 2009)
- "The band's spastic genre-slicing-and-dicing recalls the Bay Area dada-rockers like Les Claypool.......Battlehooch may have acquired a rep as a party band, but don't be surprised if it tries to reach out and touch you with its music. "I don't think 'party' implies a lack of seriousness," says Smith. "We take our music and our performance very seriously. It has moments of being ridiculous, but that's part of being human." - San Francisco Chronicle (Kimberly Chun / September 3, 2009)
- "But probably the wildest and weirdest outfit in San Francisco right now has got to be Battlehooch - a hyperactive brotherhood of Captain Beefheart fanatics who peddle crazy party-prog that few can comprehend but everyone wants to dance to (irrespective of how completely impossible it may be). Fearlessly experimental, boundlessly energetic and when they end their sets by ripping through an insane cover of James Brown's "Superbad" you can't help but wonder that the weather's like on their planet." - NME Magazine (UK) ( printed version)
- "Their performance is nothing short of insanity and is more art than rock ...... pure sunshine." - Rock Insider (LA)
- "Battlehooch sounds like an ungodly jazz beast, loose and furious at a summer music festival, tearing up some punk band and maybe half of !!! in its horrible jaws.... {they sound like} what the Mars Volta might have been like if it had no money..." - Willamette Week (PDX, OR)
- " Taken as a whole, the most impressive thing about OOF OWF is that as such an ambitious first release, it still manages to leave room for further exploration and growth......OOF OWF demands to be heard from front to back, back to front, and then only with an accompanying trip to a live performance will the listener truly be able to understand and appreciate one of the most unique and talented bands the Bay Area has to offer at the moment. " - NASCENT Mag
- "[Battlehooch] has literally hooted and hollered its way into the local spotlight over the past year with its pure live inhibition and a loyal legion of sweaty fans clad in tattered orange headbands... ...It's hard not to imagine many more orange headbands in the Hooch's sea this coming year." - The Bay Bridged
- "...Battlehooch's debut EP "OOF OWF" [is] a MUST LISTEN!... ...No matter how you cut it, [Battlehooch] currently possess one of San Francisco's most unique sounds." - The Deli SF
