Discorder Magazine - November 2008
'We start this column the same way we ended the previous month's—with local lads Defektors. No sooner had I sung their praises last issue than they delivered another knockout punch, this time with even more emphasis on getting folks on the floor to shake what their mamas gavethem. "No To The Nite" and "Torn To Pieces" both ride rollercoasterbass riffs, staccato-punching guitar licks and ragged but right drumming. It seems no other band can seamlessly draw from a number of genres and make it look so easy. This is beat-punk-garage-art-rock at its best.'
-Bryce Dunn

From Terminal Boredom:
'Brief two-songer from one of the brighter lights of the Vancouver now-sound scene. 'No to the Nite' is your textbook post-punk groover executed to perfection. Rhythm sections bites down hard on the beat,guitar player fills in the gaps with no-frills strum-und-pick,straightforward vocals and some call and response refrain, with punctuation provided by a brief, yet exciting, kicking of the bass into overdrive towards the end. Fantastic. 'Torn to Pieces' carries more emotional heft, lyrically and musically, but isn't quite as enervating.Sounds like a less dour Warsaw. Still, they invest some warmth into a genre that can be played too icy in lesser hands. I'd like to see these guys and White Lung on a double-bill someday. Scum stats: 526 on black vinyl, with wonderful design from the sleeves to the labels to the insert picturing what looks like the Defektors playing to a crowd of two in a deserted bar.'(RK)
http://www.terminal-boredom.com/reviews21.html

From MRR #307
Agitated, minimal punk with a scratch-and-bite guitar strum. Repetitive rhythyms and an overcast mood align the Defektors with current raincoat lookerbackers like Manikin, Frustration, Geisha Girls, the Estranged. I appreciated the sparseness of arrangement and the tasteful lead guitar parts. You sense that this guitarist can really play, but is holding back in respect to the sound/song, which is refreshing. Sometimes it's the guitar you can't hear that is wailing the loudest. (AM)