"A remarkable debut that sparks hope that this Hopeful Monster is a marathon runner, not a sprinter." - Exclaim (read full)

"Jason Ball with the help of Paul Aucoin has made the best solo pop album since Todd Rundgren's amazing tour-de-force, Something/Anything. The self-titled release skitters through many different styles: pop, new wavey electro-pop, cool Bacharachian piano-pop, and spacey-pop " - Charty Chart Chat (read full)

"Bottomless reserves of melodies that evoke every great Californian pop moment of the past 30 years -whether the Beach Boys or Flying Burrito Brothers or Fleetwood Mac - without mimicking any of them? " - Calgary Straight (read full)

"What keeps the baroque sound of Hopeful Monster intriguing is the infusion of rootsy elements, like steel guitar and fiddle, punches of horns here and there, and brightly strummed acoustic guitars" - Canadian Musician (read full)

"This project has the sound of someone who plays, produces, and engineers. It’s full to the very last note, and hard to imagine a better Elephant 6 record not made by those Athens/Denver collective" - Bees Kness (read full)