Tim Kroenert, Journalist

"If you are a glutton for great melodies you'll gorge yourself here: they tumble one after the other."

"Melbourne's The Glorious is a band that transcends its own clichés."

"Ladder himself is a six-foot-six emo cowboy, who doesn’t so much wear his influences as imbibe and regurgitate them."

"A Sunday matinee seems oddly civilised by The Gin Club standards, but Australia's ultimate band of urban balladeers don’t hold anything back."

"If he loses a lyric he’s all too happy to be prompted by the audience. 'By the time Fleetwood Mac were my age they were using teleprompters,' he observes, reasonably."

"Lisa Crawley's voice is all her own, her sultry lower register and occasional switches to shrillness selling the drama of her narrative lyrics."

"The rest of the band returns to bring proceedings to a frantic finale with the one-two punch of Dancing For Rain and Savior."