Press

About Will:

“Will Stratton’s songs are beautiful and bracing, despite — or maybe because of — the abstract, ambitious goals that motivate him…[his] songs gain strength from their ambiguity; stylistically, they’re too imaginative to be easily pigeonholed. Sufjan Stevens and Nick Drake both work as reference points; like them, Stratton makes songs that are elegantly orchestrated. But Stratton is rapidly coming into his own.” – David Garland, for NPR Music

About 2009’s No Wonder:

“Fourteen utterly convincing acoustic ballads and the occasionally fuzzed up retrograde rocker, filled with so many of such balanced gestures of restrained songwriting that one realizes there might actually be people who are good at writing love songs without being ironic or allusive…a lovely, humble, mature record from a person who seems like a lovely, humble, mature human being. The album renders its own quiet rejoinder to those who might insist upon its anachronism, even if it’s doomed to mouthing truths in a slaughterhouse.” – Cokemachineglow.com

“This is a disc that’s stronger, meatier, and much braver than Stratton’s carefully considered debut, and even at the ripe age of 22, Stratton has—once again—proven that he’s capable of filling his songs with more heart and insight than writers twice his age.” - PopMatters

“Quiet, emotional, subtle, breathtaking, consuming, wonderful, No Wonder is quite possibly the most beautiful album to be released in 2009.” (#29 in their top 50 records of 2009) - Ragged Words (UK)

About 2007’s What The Night Said:

“Another disarmingly proficient project by an indie-rock prodigy.” - NPR’s All Songs Considered

“Stratton has produced something stirring and hyper-personal yet universally beautiful.” – All Music Guide

” … If What the Night Said is not a straight-up masterpiece, then it’s pretty damn close.” - PopMatters

“Stratton positively exudes insular transcendentalism…”  – Cokemachineglow.com