"Peg delivers a killer vocal – one that's fuelled with a flying, pure emotion – a bluesy, angelic delivery set alight by the colliding guitars and rattling strings. Inventive, raw and heartfelt music from across the sea."
--Manchestermusic.co.uk

"...New York songstress Peg Simone sidles stage-ward slouched askance and shrugs her way through songs most would slumber over. Wrestling primal back-alley poetry onto the moonlit porch of Grandpa, she fuses the petulant aura of Patti Smith or PJ Harvey with the pouting power and bristling pristine presence of her pianner playing namesake of yore....Deceptively vitriolic blues."
--Maverick, UK

"...Haunting, timeless, passionate; "lived through songs"...you can hear pure emotion in her voice which makes you feel that she fully empathizes with her lyrics and performs with emotion, straight from the heart...creating a specific atmosphere as though in her songs she tells a secret that is meant only for you."
--Rootstime, Belgium

Peg Simone - The Deeper You Get (Catdolls)
On Peg Simone's MySpace page, her list of influences includes Patti Smith, the Gun Club and Sicilian blood oranges - you know you're on safe ground with this one. In fact, it's the first Gun Club album that The Deeper You Get most recalls, not that it's any overt duplication of the sound Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his compadres laid down, it's more of a hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck thing. Simore's vocals seem to skirt around the tune in much the same way, and when she cranks up that big ol' dirty blues slide guitar wail, I get the same sort of buzz as when I first heard 'Ghost On The Highway' or 'Preaching The Blues'. Of Simone's songs, 'In The Park' shimmers like something black and precious, and 'I'm Calling' gets an unctuous little groove going before coming to a premature and altogether untimely demise.

- Rob F. - Leicester Bangs.co.uk

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Peg Simone
- The Deeper You Get EP

Would it be cruel to say that there are only a few true originals about today as far as female solo artists are concerned? Between Kate Bush's majestic return and the constant slow burning radiance from the goddesses that are Bjork and Polly Jean Harvey, filling the darkness where Patti Smith once shone, there isn't a great deal more going on. We are due our next Sacred Feminine, and vying to be included amongst the holy, rather than in the cosmic reject pile alongside Sandi Thom, is Brooklyn's Peg Simone.

The Deeper You Get is a relaxed EP, which exudes worldly confidence and completely lacks desperation. The simple but pretty Spellbound shuffles along beautifully until periodically ripped into by a Led Zep style slide guitar riff, which although a little laboured, keeps the interest. The overall result is impressively akin to the trippy ballads of The Velvet Underground (an accolade not handed out lightly!).

On Whisper, Simone's vocal talent is put into the spotlight, although musically the song finds it hard to really get going, and In The Park would suffer a similar fate if it wasn't, again, for the slide guitar's sporadic appearance. However, there is an opiate ambience, still, in these songs that keeps the listener hooked.

Peg's breathy drawl on the stoner-chill of I'm Calling sees all the aspects used in the preceding songs drawn together most successfully of all - certainly one of those tracks you feel you've always known – an instant classic, reminiscent of Cracker's Low in being a track that achieves all that it set out to do.

For all the comments above leaning towards the disparaging, the EP certainly has its own identity and Peg Simone carries buckets of potential for being more than your run of the mill signer songwriter. The lyrics are great and there is an understated presence to the music, putting her well alongside emerging female singer songwriters such as Joan As Policewoman and Morrissey's current muse, Kristeen Young. I can't wait to see her live.

- Glasswerk.co.uk

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Peg Simone

Originally hailing from Pittsburgh and now relocated to NYC, Peg Simone definitely allows many parallels to be drawn between the US and UK at the moment. There's definitely something there that does attach itself to the kind of song writing taking place over on these shores, which themselves are influenced by the heart and soul of America.

This four track sampler rings out with "Spellbound" – dreamy acoustic picks unravel into a cacophony of slide, swampy blues and Simone's downbeat vocals - a voice that can float in the air or drag you to the bottom of the sea depending on what takes her fancy. "Whisper" takes a more regular approach – the clean strums of electric guitar and steady, almost distant drum beats sustaining the tempo as Peg Simone pours over her solid, forceful muse like Patti Smith and PJ Harvey at a folk convention.

"In The Park" is the most open song by far, swinging to its beat as Simone takes her vocals higher, with a velvet timbre and melodic monotone that's cut by the sharp interruption of a rustic slide guitar. With just drums and guitar, all the tracks are deliberately recorded dry and flat, which conveys a raw, natural feel, but doesn't temper or restrict the width of her sound alongside percussionist James Murray. The signature of "I'm Calling" is different again. This time Peg delivers a killer vocal – one that's fuelled with a flying, pure emotion – a bluesy, angelic delivery set alight by the colliding guitars and rattling strings. Inventive, raw and heartfelt music from across the sea.

- JA - Manchester Music

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