"This band's Best Kept Secret status is under serious threat, as their impossibly heavy live shows win them a growing legion of converts. Druggy guitars, a cello, spectral female harmonies, a thunderous rhythm section, everything you could need for a classic 4AD-style blissout. Do not listen before operating heavy machinery."

" I acquired a copy of their debut album... and this disc does not disappoint. In fact, it is the best release that I have heard by a Seattle band this year."

"These songs are like secrets, whispered and caught in starlight. The drums and rhythms tell stories of driving and highway nights, while the guitars fall like rain-shine across the worlds that are created in this seductive half light. This music feels like dusk and flows like dawn, and though it seems like it’s all tied to your dreams, it won’t let you sleep."

"Half Light haven't only managed to make a charming debut but also to bring many different genres together to create gorgeous landscapes together. There's the psychadelica of Thirteen Tales era Dandy Warhols, the general songwriting craft of Mazzy Star, hey, there's even elements of post-rock such as Sigur Ros and the sparseness of Portishead too. First impressions can indeed be deceptive - please let this impression be a lasting one."

"Caught in a heat haze of druggy guitars, but in a good way... An odd mixture of Mazzy Star/Altered Images/Julee Cruise vocals with some fairly strident, yet often psychedelic, guitar is what greets the listener on the excellent opener, 'Affected', to this the splendidly named first record from Seattle's Half Light. Dayna Loeffler's dream-state vocals diffuse the power in the slow moving guitars, creating an odd atmosphere, at times it feels uplifting, at others claustrophobic, like trying to walk underwater."

"These are down-tempo, electric lullabies for adults who don't necessarily want to sleep...The songs specialize in spaciousness. Singer Dayna Loeffler's candy-coated vocals move over, under and through mounds of distortion, strolling rhythms, twinkling guitars and expansive, moody soundscapes that appear, disappear and reappear throughout."

"certainly has what many bands dream of – A SOUND."

"...it's exactly what you'd expect: smooth, dreamy spacerock that owes influences to Pink Floyd, Lush, My Bloody Valentine..."

"Rarely has an album title felt so much like the music it contained... the hazy, hallucinogenic 'Sleep More, Take More Drugs, Do Whatever We Want' absolutely feels like one has slipped back into experimentation-heavy teen years with little to no responsibility."

"As soon as Dayna Loeffler opens her mouth, you'd swear that Mazzy Star has found her way out of a rehab clinic somewhere and re-emerged under the name Half Light."