www.jonnysonic.comOne listen may satisfy you for the day, week, or even month, but eventually, you'll be asking yourself what you did with that Jonny Sonic disc, because you need another fix.
– Seattle Sound Magazine
Holy fuck, those horns, those horns!
– GhettoBlaster Magazine
With so many ingredients, these addicting hooks and frighteningly heavy beats prove Jonny Sonic to be the best dope pusher in town.
– Seattle Sound Magazine
The whole thing is a damn good time, worthy of inclusion in any huge pimp’s playlist, but has the intelligence to be more than that. Jonny Sonic is a potential mastermind.
– IndieWorkshop
Call it jazz for people who don’t like jazz, perched a funkdafied nook somewhere between Herbie Hancock and the Roots. If you like one song on this album, you’ll like them all.
– Playback Magazine
Guard your grills, kids ...Jonny Jonic aims straight for the head...and never misses.
– Both Sides of the Surface
Ladies and gentlemen, sit up and listen to the groundbreaking sound of the new eclecticism. Witness: Jonny Sonic’s next face-melting, torso-tugging, funk opus…
… an epic slab of blistering horns, searing lyrics, trench-dredging bass, and ballistic beats to spare.
This funk- and soul-stomping bombast arises from the sleepy Pacific Northwest? Specifically, Seattle? Hell yes.
HandPicked Entertainment started in Detroit, after all, and Jonny Sonic always packs a heaping helping of the Motor City grit, y’all.
SAY IT AGAIN WITHOUT YOUR MOUTH FULL’s 16 songs range in topic from death, war, and taxes to new music itself. “Get Up, Stand Up” re-imagines the seminal Bob Marley song with a new-millennium rhythmic riffing. A battery of songs takes on the entrenched hypocrisy of American politics; others flex poetic on the perils of hate, the worries of fatherhood, greed, lesbians, mixtapes, and sweaters. (Not to mention the illest Christmas song ever.)
