“After more than 20 years of playing together, the Necks have honed their art to the point where their concerts are like collective meditations, executed with a Zen-like discipline that paradoxically engenders an extraordinary amount of freedom.”…
“The way that The Necks build a piece – bit by bit – and then deconstruct it in a live setting, is something I urge everyone to experience if they get the chance. It’s unexplainable, it’s unclassifiable and it’s unattainable unless you’re them. Tony, Lloyd and Chris; there are no words.…
“Like a vast sound-mass suspended in vibrating, seething stillness, its colour and luminosity changing slowly.”…
“As ever The Necks have been a remarkable sound-bathing experience, a contemporary jazz band from a Tibetan monastery that’s not jazz, really, and not from Tibet either. It is what it is and, I suspect, mostly what you are yourself. Spooky.”…
“The Necks slow the world down… A unique musical experience.”…
“Ecstacy in slow motion… magically euphoric… The Necks’ appearance was less a traditional concert than a fascinating opportunity to participate in the pulsating genesis of organic tones and sounds.”…
“The three have developed their own unique, unmistakable language. The Necks are, above all, masters of dynamics. One only ever really understands the changes in hindsight.”…
“Tonal, accessible, and yet profoundly challenging… The Necks are singular… Yielding things no one else does.”…
“Over and over I was caught up in the constant repetition of tonal figures, found myself focussing on the tiniest alterations, without noticing that I had been surrounded by a completely new motif… Like a pearl necklace, threaded together piece by piece, only becoming a piece of jewelry when the end of the string is reached.”…
“It is a fairly safe bet to say that no other group in the world sounds quite like The Necks…extraordinary empathy and discipline.”…