"For well over two decades, the Canadian foursome of singers/guitarists Dallas and Travis Good, bassist Sean Dean, and drummer Mike Belitsky have been banging out high quality rock and roll, tinged with psychedelic sensibilities and neo-noir inspired grooves ... On Northern Passages, the Sadies return from a four-year hiatus with their tenth studio album. While their presence has been sorely missed from the musical landscape, it appears as though the intervening years caused little to change in terms of the tone, tenor, and outlook of the band's music".