"With its two bass line up (...) and twin drummers it comes as no surprise to find that Shake Stew's music is highly rhythmic. Elements of jazz, rock, funk and Afro-beat inform their music and the group's sound also owes something to the spiritual jazz of the 1960s (John and Alice Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders etc.) and the futuristic Pan-African space jazz of Sun Ra. All of the six pieces on "Rise And Rise Again" are written by Kranzelbinder, who impresses with his compositional skills. Stylistically it's not a million miles away from some of the groups that [Shabaka] Hutchings has been involved with in recent years including The Comet Is Coming, Shabaka and the Ancestors, Melt Yourself Down, and of course Sons of Kemet, another band with a twin drums line up. I think it's fair to say that Hutchings is something of a kindred spirit and fits in very nicely ... Shake Stew are a big deal in their native Austria, regularly selling out Porgy & Bess [Jazz Club, Vienna], and its easy to see why".