“The current title-holder of Weirdest Band in Town, The Reveries.”
-Carl Wilson, Globe and Mail


“The Reveries' music is really very pretty. In its woozy, Ella-on-Quaaludes way, it reveres and revives the original tunes, but reels them back to the body, amid all its ungainly, embarassing excesses. The beauty may even be heightened by the impediments, levitated out of the songs into pure, messy abstraction.”
-Carl Wilson, Globe and Mail


“Just how home-made and exotic the Rat-drifting musical family can get becomes apparent on the latest episode, Blasé Kisses ,  by The Reveries, the same musicians heard earlier as The Draperies. However, Driver and Tielli have dropped synth and brass in favor of “mouth-mikes” (literally-waterproof cellphone components in the singers’mouths) and other assorted instruments, and the free improvisation has given way to very odd vocal renditions of standards like “My Reverie” and “Moonlight in Vermont.” The latter sounds like aliens have landed on the shores of Lake Champlain only to launch a campfire sing-along, some joining in from beneath the waves. An almost crazily playful form of disarticulation, it creates a dream state around familiar texts. It may be heard as an elaborate joke about the current state of jazz singing and repertoire (it’s such a treat to hear singers doing something different with this material), but it has a weird ambience all it’s own.”
-Stuart Broomer, Coda Magazine