"Floating in the Whale"

Reviews / The Press

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"'Floating the Whale' has a very unique sound that I wasn't expecting, not at all a 'copycat' album.  I found it to be a nod to the classic rock sounds of the late 70's, lots of heavy guitars mixed with strong vocals."

- Dave Trout, Under the Radar, Jan., 2010.

"Otterman makes music that doesn't get made a lot these days - grand, borderline bombastic '70's inspired rock that brings back memories of Pink Floyd, Meatloaf, or Blue Oyster Cult."

- Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press, Dec. 31, 2009.

"Creative and sophisticated...Throughout the generous 65-minute album there is an intensity of delivery that holds the listener's ear while encasing the surroundings in a cloak of foreboding and drama that makes this an album not easily digested.... Otterman has unquestioningly the best voice I've heard from a Vermont singer in a long time.

 - Art Edelstein, The Times Argus, April 17, 2009.

"The album is a masterpiece!  Very well done with a wonderful touch of diversity crafted throughout! 'Onward Christian Soldiers' is amazing."

 - Bill Richardson, Under One Roof.

"Floating in the Whale is really pretty good...The mix of styles it reflects is kind of interesting: prog-folk or something. I like the more Crazy Horse moments, whether real ("Hear My Words") or which I imagine ("Green Mountain Skies"). You couldn't write these songs or make this kind of distinctive music if you were in NY, Nashville or L.A.: That's the great thing about the relative isolation of Vermont, where the environment, personal history, and imagination allow for interesting, if not always commercial, hybrids. Anyone who combines Blue Oyster Cult and Bob Dylan on the same song and calls it (or mixes it with) "Onward Christian Soldiers" is OK with me.”

 - Wayne Robins, Billboard Magazine, May 29, 2009.

 -T EDELSTEIN Arts Correspondent, The Times Argus.

"Unlike anything you've ever heard." 

 - Dan Bolles, Seven Days, May 13, 2009.

"dark"...."foreboding".... "Allentown"..."Pink-Floyd'ish" "filled with disillusionment and wanderlust"  

- Bob Robinson, Chestnut Bay Studios.