This is a living, breathing beast of an album - ARTROCKER MAGAZINE, UK
 
This is their fiercest, most lacerating album yet, better by a good margin than the mid-1980s Pigs on Purpose...and that was excellent - BLURT, USA
 
The Nightingales have been responsible for some of the most genuinely innovative minority music of the past three decades. What's more with the release of Insult To Injury they have significantly raised their game. In fact, this is undoubtedly their finest moment - THE QUIETUS, UK

Boozy and deranged, Insult to Injury is how the new Franz record ought to sound - VICE, UK
 
This album had me hitting the button on the CD player to skip to the next track, and then the next track, and so on until it ended. If it wasn't for the slightly enjoyable and humourous Monty Python styled Former Florist To The Queen then this album would have been struggling to get even a two-star rating - MAVERICK, UK

Their freshest and most subtly intoxicating work to date - OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY, UK
 
They sound wired, edgy, boozy and as dangerous as ever, like a new band full of that energy that comes with those first moves and not a band who’ve been doing this since the start of punk. Robert Lloyd really shouldn’t be this good after all these years, should he? - THE ORGAN, UK

The new album from the 'Gales is their finest for 27 years. Start here and work backwards - SUNDAY TIMES, UK

Unlovable as ever. The Nightingales remain hard work for precious little gain - MOJO, UK

Its no wonder that they are on the label of the Krautrock legends Faust. The Nightingales capability with sound and playfulness is endless. Their rough unruliness is very charming - ECLIPSED, Germany

Insult to Injury is probably as good as the Nightingales have ever been. This isn’t just an 80's band doing good but it’s a fine record period, and puts most contemporary (and younger) “post-punk” bands to shame - SOUNDS XP, UK

This band doesn't sound sleepy, but like a better version of the Beatnik Filmstars  or early Pavement. Those who like that kind of stuff will love this album. But this is surely no food for the average main stream listener and those who dislike noise, repetitive structures and bands like The Fall or Sonic Youth must try something else - STADTKIND, Germany
 
It's time The Nightingales received as much recognition as their reformed conteporaries such as Gang Of Four and Wire - and given that they've just released their best album yet, their story is far from over - ARTROCKER ONLINE, UK

It is a disturbing, funny, hard to classify, intelligent and interesting piece of rock music. Melancholic, sarcastic, with great musical skills and a charismatic frontman - a mix that makes it easy to see why John Peel loved them - THE GAP, Germany

The vibrancy of it all sets the post-..garage/..punk/..rock(abilly) pulses wriggling while allowing room for exhuberant some Music Hall rollicking to fit right in -PLAN B, UK
 
This album is uneven, undisciplined and overlong - UNCUT, UK

The Nightingales for me are like Big Flame and Faust: groups that I admire and respect and which seem to have impeccable ethics, but that in truth I can not listen to. I tried. It gave me headache - ROCK DELUX, Spain

The Nightingales are back with a cool, noisy album featuring avant-garde, punk and some great cosmic music. The album scores with it's bulkiness, bittersweet tricksy-ness and down to earth pop melancholy. Don't miss their tour in Spring 2009! - SKRUG, Austria

Insult To Injury combines stuff capable of being on the radio with utterly entertaining experiments. Thrilling. - NOTES, Germany

Indignant lyrics with a punk accompaniment that deals a firm clip around the ear to all the pipsqueaks out there acting as pretenders to their anarchic throne - LEEDS GUIDE, UK

Beefheartian honk, skronk and groove mixed with discordant falling-apart-at-the-seams rock 'n' roll. Everything sprinkled over the top with those surreal streams of swiftly decaying consciousness lyrics - ROCK A ROLLA, UK

Band reunions seem almost compulsory these days, but few have done it with as much purpose as The Nightingales. Since re-teaming in 2004, they have released three terrific albums and a wedge of great singles. Insult To Injury, co-produced in Germany with Faust's Hans Joachim Irmler, may well prove to be their best yet - CLASSIC ROCK, UK

This record can teach a lesson to the dozens of kids' bands pretending to be 'cool' on myspace, talking of post-punk without knowing the real thing -RUMORE, Italy

Robert Lloyd's almost spoken word vocals may be an acquired taste but the band's progressive, Led Zeppelin-..inspired jams will be a treat for many. This is mostly an enjoyable listen from a band who still manage to sound as relevant as ever - CLASH, UK

There’s a definite decadent mess here that John Peel would have loved - THE LIST, UK

Although you can virtually guarantee that a Nightingales album is going to sound even better in a few years than it does at the time, Insult to Injury really is shaping up nicely. I wouldn't go as far as saying that everything has grabbed me as yet, but there really are some 'Gales classics in the making... the two seven minute tracks, Double Whammy Bar and Big Bones are fabulous - EVIL SPONGE, UK

Neither retro nor modern, not punk nor new wave this is ruffian rock from angry blues rockers with frontman Robert Lloyd singing cool songs full of honesty - GUITAR, Germany 

They have no shame in continuing the legacy of the Velvet Underground, without sounding like expired imposters. And it's done with so much conviction and energy that, the man himself, Hans-Joachim Irmler can never have had an simpler record to produce - GO, Spain
 
Continues the surreal, caustic, verbiage and arcane sonic grafting of Captain Beefheart and The Fall of previous releases... which is good news for those who like their music warts and all - Q, UK