Riverfront Times 24 June 2006

Waterloo release new CD

Out of the Woods, the third release from Waterloo, often replicates the feeling of having sunshine beat down on one's face, with its lush layers of warm guitar, melodic piano and Ray's dusky vocals. The honeyed jangle of highlight "Light in the Doorway" conjures Robyn Hitchcock, although there's a distinctive psychedelic bent to the snaky electric riffs of "Chain of Lakes."

But as with the best R.E.M. albums, the disc's light is often tempered by a darker undercurrent of loss and longing — intangible wistfulness and introspection that gives Woods resonant emotional depth.

– Annie Zaleski