“It’s got guts, piss, vinegar and a driving momentum that somehow calls to mind the gallop and attitude of Alice Cooper’s Return of the Spiders and that windowofpuritythat was blissfully grimy, snotty and just a touch glammy in the right spots. Open the Sky hits the spot in more places than one. Both ass-kicking future-funk rock n’ roll and a damn good time that’s not afraid to shout about how long ago it really started.” – Sunrise Ocean Bender

“Conceived as a complete album, in the classic album sense, the record starts with the smoking, love-gone-wrong blues rocker “Bernadette” (not a nod to the Four Tops classic–I asked) and builds and builds into a trippy journey before culminating in the to the sprawling, heavy psychedelics of closing epic, “The Occulus of the Winged Man.”” – Chicago Music

“…in pointing to the Velcro Lewis Group’s impressive cohesiveness, the album did kinda register as a calling card for an act whose well-oiled assurance would very likely set a tightly-packed club ablaze. And that’s what makes Open the Sky such a striking follow-up. If White Magick Summer presented a band with a firm handle on their sound, the gains in both songwriting and studio ingenuity found on this trim new LP are a surprising and very welcome turn of events.” – The Vinyl District

“A Chicago band led by a blind frontman and a singing drummer, think the party-hearty-Marty funk rock sounds of Rare Earth, think George Clinton’s P-funk if the ‘P’ stood for Pilsner, think… actually, don’t think, just listen. Free your mind and your etc etc etc..’” – Classic Rock Magazine