"Chiming electro rock that goes beyond the ideas Wire have explored in their later years." Sun 13
"A brutal brainbreaker, pulverizing my headphones. The shocking combination of paranoid electronics, ruthless percussion, far-out guitars, neurotic vocals and a battering chorus works like a motorized chainsaw. DD nails it. Very loud and very clear." Turn Up The Volume
"The new single Brutalised Robotics is out now, to warm our ears and rewire our brains and boy does it do just that. A chiming electro rock track that makes you think, keeps you static and is jus straight weird in the best possible way." Forte
"He produces music and videos that audaciously whack every mole in the artistic arcade — garage-rock, power-pop, new wave, electronica, psychedelia — while maintaining a stylish minimalism and pointed propulsion." Tinnitist
"Darren Smallman might well be one of the most intense musicians right now. Brutalised Robotics is an in-your-face dystopian skewed rocker, with mussy keyboards riding shotgun." Here Comes The Flood
"Brutalised Robotics sounds like Isaac Asimov meets Gary Numan-core. Yes, channeling all this psychedelic-motorik aesthetic from Kraftwerk and Can to new wave and indietronica acts, this song is rhythmically infectious. It is also hit-leaning thanks to its incendiary backing vocal parts and a dose of throwback Britpop guitar hooks." Grotesqualizer