Anyone reading my previous review of this band, the glorious single “The Mirror,” might have thought, “this guy’s on the pay role or perhaps owes the band money.” I did wax a little too lyrical, perhaps gush a tad too profusely. Guilty as charged. But then, The Ember Glows seem to capture most of my eighties youth in their swirling, shimmering, antheming, and energetic music. To coin a phrase, they are worth it. [...] I don’t know how they manage to touch so many reference points and yet still sound cohesive and of themselves. But if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. - Dave Franklin, The Big Takeover