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Mladen Loncar (Soundguardian.com):
"Guys, this is mind-blowing! This band sounds like The Roomful of Blues or, if we dig a little deeper, like the legendary Blood Sweat & Tears. It just takes a couple of minutes to feel that these musicians are heavy dudes!.."

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Przemek Draheim (blues.pl/Radio Sfera, Poland):
"...This is a tight band with a lot of talent in it, producing some tasty music. My kind of blues!"

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Bjorn Wiksaas (Radio Ung, Norway):
"...oh how wonderful it sounds in my weary blues-ears.."

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Andrey Alyakrinskiy (Tequilajazzz):
"This is damn good!..."

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Aleksey Kalachyov (BluesNews.ru):
"By their new disc, the Blackmailers have proven that the are skilled instrumentalist with good taste and vivid fantasy..."

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Andrey Nedvetskiy (SHOWTIME):
"I will start with the theory that they must have recorded on the disc some mesmerizing “25^th note”, because having once listed to it I keep playing it again and again..."

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dj Marusia (Radio DFM):
"I think Paradise Fanfare Blues is a powerful, solid, emotional work..."

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Fedor Romanenko (blues.ru):
The Blackmailers’ second album is, undoubtedly, a stylistic heir to Zlatno Zrno Blues. It is an original mixture of swing and Balkan music. The first album was more eclectic, clearly a serendipitous motley collection of hits interspersed with the Blackmailer’s signature gimmicks. The second album presents a certain degree of conceptual and stylistic unity...

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Dmitriy Legut:
"One rock aficionado has called the Blackmailers “barrelhouse musicians.” In principle, he was right. Only the pejorative intonation should be replace with respect..."

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Mikhail Belov (bluesforum.ru):
"Globally speaking and jokes apart – this is THE THING..."

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