Venue 2006
""Exquisite metapop hewn from crystalline shards of jazz ambience and whirled into prismatic splendour. No, honestly - not so much recommended as prescribed as the cure for all ills. Ever." "You'll never hear another band like this one - not even Organelles" (both VENUE, Feb 2006)"
funkymofo (anglofrench online \'zine) feb 2004
"bristol\'s finest band. extraordinary."
village voice, nyc, september 2003
"two albums into their discography so far, organelles can justly claim to cut their own edge, so far from merely making, either facile gestures, or inevitable retreads of the genius of original, earlier, greater pioneers. organelles are pioneers."
vancouver vanguard, september 2003
"this is a genuinely original voice, a musical mindset that rings pealingly true to itself, yet never risks being gratuitously difficult. Elegiac, uplifting, familiarly strange, the organelles muse does know it\'s born"
Venue, December 2002
"A truly unique pop/art/rock/jazz collective, Organelles are surely one of the Southwest's super-cult bands. A chance to see them on stage must really be grabbed with both hands (and feet). Strangely structured songs, with unexpected lyrics, somehow turn out to be toe-tapping gems every time"
Venue
"Mesmerising sound that really is unlike anyone else, ever. Great musicianship, compositional talent, artistic integrity, and damn fine entertainment - the crowd loved it."
Steve Henwood, Bath Festival Fringe
"The most original band in the South West."
Venue
"Splendid meditative pieces that not only smooth the sharp edges of life, but dominate the music in your head for weeks at a time. Instant therapy in easy-to-take disc form. Lovely."
Bracknell Festival
"Mesmerising music that skirts the boundaries of jazz."
Big Issue
"Cellular Soul is arguably one of the best local releases of the year with a sparkling, sunny demeanour all of its own."
The Bell, Bath
"Is this the best band in Bristol? Nah, it's one of the best in the country, we reckon. Come and have your horizons broadened."
Venue
"Musically daring, frighteningly melodic; wholesome, delicious, beguiling, heartstopping sound like none other."
Straight No Chaser
"Highly individual, in a definite category of its own. There's a melodic charm at work on Cellular Soul and a quiet depth to its songs. I was won over."
Bath Time Jazz ( Bath Evening Chronicle, Jan 31, 2003)
"The long, long awaited new Organelles album, entitled Knowing You?e Born, is out. The first Organelles CD, made sometime in the last millennium, has endured as one of my all-time favourites. Like the first, this one falls somewhere between definitions and categories. Is it jazz? Is it skewed pop? When you like something, I suppose it doesn't really matter what category it falls in.
"It is an album that transcends genre and at the same time exhibits the capacity to redefine jazz songwriting, and all with lovely playing, particularly from Pete."
Decode Magazine, April/May 2003
"Organelles 'Knowing You're Born' Fevered and eminently foot-tappable...Paul Bradley's sketchy, off-at-tangent songsmithery is quaintly backdropped by a whole heap of curious instrumentation that makes it sound akin to a punch up down the garden fete between the regular brass band and the indie act who set up a stage in defiance at all those trumpets. Gentle when it has to be, dense at all other times. Lovely."
Venue
"Organelles: a band doing far more than merely ploughing their own furrow - there's no one in the adjacent farm, never mind field. If comparisons must be made, then think 'Kid A' confronting jazz with greater directness, a wondrously disarming series of left turns..."