The chronicles of Marnia

"As its CS Lewis-inspired title suggests, Chronicles brims with life-as-quest metaphors, and emotive battle-cry hooks abound ... Semi-autobiographical crises may drive these songs, but a defiant hope pervades them: Year of the Glad's sunbursts and Immortals' ascending riffs are dazzling. Expect no pyrrhic victory here: this is joyous, hurtling guitar glory - Stern's brilliant paean to survival".

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"The Chronicles of Marnia is an extension of the transition she started on 2010's Marnie Stern toward a more controlled, more subdued sound. Not that any of her music is a good reference point for "controlled" or "subdued." Marnia still sounds like Marnie Stern: aggressive, busy, bright, with death-defying highs and perilous lows. But where she often used to shriek, now she sometimes sighs, and the frantic, start-stop quality of her early songs has given way to something more like a swoon".

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