i Reviews:

Smother.net
The album title (Get to Know Your Own Fluids)sounds like some post-hangover blues anthem or something. I, however takes the roots of Middle Eastern music and deftly combines it with epic rock for an artistic visionary creation that is out-of-this-world. Somewhat like some fantasy movie’s soundtrack to some extent. An incredibly intelligent follow-up to their brilliant debut “The Nominonimore”.

Jon Cooper
Editor, Play Mag, New Haven Ct
The guys from i have dirty mouths.
Seriously, after coming across the hidden track on the band's latest offering, Get to Know Your Own Fluids, we were reaching for the Orbit gum. Actually, Mississippi, their popular live rap/ska number is pretty damn funny once you get past the idea of what they want to do to your mom (well, not YOUR mom, but the fictional mom in the song). Though after listening to that track it's sort of funny to say that the band's second effort — the follow to The Nominonivore — is a sign
that they're maturing. Anyone who knows i — vocalist Scott Genereau, guitarist Brett Chamberlain, bassist Adam Chamberlain, sitar guru and more Matt
Sikorski and drummer/handsome man Craig Malone — knows that this band will never grow up — they get better but stay the same age. While the band doesn't take themselves seriously, they produce some seriously good sounds. The band has slated its cd release show as part of a showcase with other acts on the Southington-based Sling Slang Records. Proceeds from the show's $10 tickets will be donated to Habitat for Humanity, something the band acknowledges is a good cause and a way to hopefully draw more people to the show. "We were going to do it at a bar. We've played at bars in Hartford before, we know what that looks like," Sikorski said. "We're obviously not trying to be famous, we just thought it would be cool to fill The Webster … if we can raise money for (Habitat for Humanity), at this point in our careers, that was something I'd be proud of." Their latest release is something Sikorski and his mates should also be proud of. To the Devil, Fluids' lead track, opens with a haunting Middle Eastern sound before exploding into rhythmic-guitar rock. The title track showcases exactly what makes i work — strong songwriting and a tight sound where the band compliments each other and no one member outshines the collective. (Oh, and for the record, Sikorski, who
handles the songwriting with Genereau, says the title track is about "panic attacks," not anything else you might have gathered.) On the closing track Self the oft-shy Genereau delivers a vocal performance that, when matched with the backing keys and bells (ya, bells!), will leave you wanting more than the five minutes the song covers. From the frenetic, break-neck speed of Fist Stick and On Being a Puppet to melodies of June 10th and the hooks of Hate, sex i has delivered what will be one of the best discs in Connecticut this year.

JD
Hybrid Magazine
“This album could fit well into the playlists of any modern-rock station, but that shouldn't be read with the usual sort of contemptuous disgust I hold for the genre. I draws from the things a lot of the modern rock bands did well, and puts its own spin on it.”

Morbid Outlook.com
“Very song oriented, as in rock/pop/alt/indie. Very rockish male vocals, with solid, butt thumpin’ rockish accompaniment, complete with what the weasel industry terms “hooks”. This music might leave little piles of devil dung all over the Clear Channel sidewalks.”

Craig Gilbert
Staff Writer, New Haven Advocate
i, get to know your own fluids (myspace.com/thebanditheband). Fifteen tracks of upbeat, neo-dance rock. It's a tasty mix of guitar rock with electronic squelps and keys mixed in that don't detract or overpower. "Like Here" approaches a tweaked-up, speedy techno beat. Then track seven ("June 10th") reels it back in with a ballad-y moment. Actually, the second half of the disc is better than the first. It's not too dancey, not too rock.


Northeast Performer Mag. Di Guardia
Once interstellar space travel is perfected to the point where it is used for commercial enterprise, maybe we'll get to visit whatever distant planet this bizarre record was beamed over from. The eerie and otherworldly sounds that permeate this record start at the onset and do not cease until the disc has stopped spinning. The big question is this: is I's sound palatable upon the currently accessible planet? The answer is sort of unclear.
The record seems as thought out and planned as an actual space shuttle launch, with not a mechanism out of place and a carefully monitered atmosphere. It's hard, however, not to find a small bit of contrivance amongst the weird intervals and the reverb-soaked vocals.
I sounds like some weird mix between Radiohead, the Killers and Queensryche, if they formed into a super-band that existed in the dystopian future. Sometimes machinelike, sometimes sad and nomadic, I functions on its own plane of popular music. The sounds are proggy and melodic. Each member of the band possesses a strong ability on his instrument. But while the performances are flawless, there seems to be a flavor of artifice that lightly cheapens each song.
The band makes heavy use of odd intervals like flat nines and sharp sixes. Whereas many bands can use these sounds in chords and sound fine, I uses them extensively in their melodic content, sliding the leads around uncomfortably over a flimsy set of stage props in the form of hand-drums and tribal female "Nyaaah-nyeeeahh" vocals.
I's sound and production is spot on, and the band proves itself more than capable of acting as vehicle for a really new and exciting musical message. When the band figures out just what that message is, they'll be golden.

Ben Johnson
New London Day
“It is really exciting when you listen to a record, made locally by a local band under an independent label, and the record turns out to be professional in all aspects. These five gentlemen from our very own Bristol sound like they're about to break.”

J-Sin
smother.net
“Lyrically it’s witty and light-years ahead of most of their fellow brethren in music. Their sound is overtly subversive and in tune with the more metallic edge of rock and funky pop with notes of electronica thrown in for good measure.”

Nick Scalia
New Haven Play Magazine
“ ‘i’s The Nominonivore is one of the most ambitious albums we’ve ever heard a local act put out - and it’s U2-esque title track, a big, epic rocker tinged with Middle Eastern influences and huge crashing choruses, puts way too many major- label bands to shame.”

MP
impactpress.com
“Electro music with moments of indie pop rock weirdness. It has catchy pop melodies with vocals influences somewhere intersecting around Bono and Thom Yorke. This band has created a radio ready electro pop band with layers. "

Eugene Hazanov
91.3 University Of Hartford Radio
“With your CD I ran into a trouble which happens every time I come across an excellent album: I keep on listening to it over, and over, and over - and end up not having any time left to sample CDs at all. What's amazing about "The Nominonivore" is that even after so many times I've listened, it remains so fresh and emotionally moving. Listening to tracks in random order also helps me to discover new layers and nuances (if there are any, that is). Well, with your CD there seems no end to them: every time I listen, something so remarkable comes out, I can't understand how I could've missed that before. There is not a single weak track on the whole thing. The title track is truly on a world level, and all the rest are spinning in close orbits. I just can't believe you managed to keep your music quality so consistently high on your very first release with so much material included.”

Atana
Jplewismusic.com
“Marjaba and The Nominonivore are jewels.  When I first showed up at the 'i' site and heard the clip of Nominonivore, (and please forgive me for being suspicious, I had just listened to probably 50 really mediocre artists), I was concerned that the use of the sitar was an attention grabbing ploy.  But when I downloaded it I was floored. You made it your own.  PWPALS...love it.  Simple in comparison to the previous complex transitions of other songs, but really lovely.”

Upchuck Undergrind Fishcom Collective
“i's sound fuses slick electronic textures and highly polished indie rock with hints of emo here and there. The music is high energy and not without its catchiness, The electric/organic elements blend nicely with the electronica for music that boasts the thrust of industrial rock without actually being, well, industrial; the music remains firmly planted in indie rock sensibilities.”

Radio Mojo.com
“Smacked in the middle of a five band bill, i was the most pleasing. Their unique sound filled with rock, club and Middle Eastern influences is a nice change from the current Brit Pop trend on most airwaves. Their live show is something of interest too. The band is so comfortable together and believes they have nothing to prove, so they interact often and sometime aggressively on stage.”