Reviews
"This album performs an original and striking intervention in musical philology in Cyprus and beyond. In terms of themes, it draws its inspiration from world literature and politics, while the energy of its compositions carries the charge of a cosmopolitan impulse." Stavros Stavrou Karayanni - Cadences: a Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, Fall 2017
“Grendel Babies captivated a large audience at The Soundry with their unique sound and magnetic stage presence. Their music is an auditory and visual experience that lends itself to a surreal, dreamlike state both on stage and in your head. You crave more to make sure it was real and not just a music fantasy.”
Jennifer Crawford - The Soundry
“Prepare yourself for a theatrical efforts and literary references before you attend a Grendel Babies show. This three-piece DC band, led by Marilena Zackheos, crafts together well-thought vocal lyrics with complex keyboard, violin and cello compositions, yet their live shows come close to performance art when the band adds matching themed costumes, stage props, and sometimes, for kicks, coordinated dance moves.”
Marian McLaughlin - Dispatch
"...evocative, animated, mysterious, and poetic."
Jacquelyn Pyun and Shauna Alexander - BrightestYoungThings
"...like 21st C. madrigals, balanced with vaudevillian humor."
Richard - musicdetour.com
"...a consistent sense of tension throughout..."
Matthew Siblo - dcist.com
"This album performs an original and striking intervention in musical philology in Cyprus and beyond. In terms of themes, it draws its inspiration from world literature and politics, while the energy of its compositions carries the charge of a cosmopolitan impulse." Stavros Stavrou Karayanni - Cadences: a Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, Fall 2017
“Grendel Babies captivated a large audience at The Soundry with their unique sound and magnetic stage presence. Their music is an auditory and visual experience that lends itself to a surreal, dreamlike state both on stage and in your head. You crave more to make sure it was real and not just a music fantasy.”
Jennifer Crawford - The Soundry
“Prepare yourself for a theatrical efforts and literary references before you attend a Grendel Babies show. This three-piece DC band, led by Marilena Zackheos, crafts together well-thought vocal lyrics with complex keyboard, violin and cello compositions, yet their live shows come close to performance art when the band adds matching themed costumes, stage props, and sometimes, for kicks, coordinated dance moves.”
Marian McLaughlin - Dispatch
"...evocative, animated, mysterious, and poetic."
Jacquelyn Pyun and Shauna Alexander - BrightestYoungThings
"...like 21st C. madrigals, balanced with vaudevillian humor."
Richard - musicdetour.com
"...a consistent sense of tension throughout..."
Matthew Siblo - dcist.com