From Left Hip Magazine:

If you're a fan of low-fi pop and happy hooks than Whistle Jacket is certainly worth a spin. It's one of those records that sound as though it was recorded in the basement on the old reliable four track (that being your father`s of course).

A refreshing change to stretched talents hunkered down in the studio masked behind digital bells and whistles with hardly a shallow well of talent to draw on. This is where a lot of newbie indie bands seems to be going which is easily another reason to appreciate a band like WJ. No red faces here, but the sort of unpretentious, non-try-hard pop music you can skip happily down the sidewalk listening to (not really but it is gleeful), arrive rested and positive for another day behind the desk (if you get what I mean).

A lot of press releases you read talk about bands and a needful correlation with the traditions of AM radio, a rite of passage type of thing; where they'd like to be or end up. WJ is AM radio in the 50's tradition; it's not the music that sounds born in the 50's, but the production.

To strip the bells and whistles takes (in this reviewers opinion) guts, a confidence in your talent and hooks. WJ has this confidence. So if over-production is getting you down, give Stop Start Skip and Jump a chance and slip back to the low-fi memories of AM radio for a while.

-Freddy Jisp