"Its hard to talk about Rosalis music. Songs that reach outward like this, but then constantly disarm with their intimacy. What do you call such inner searching that is hellbent on rollicking? Songs that long for a sense of peace and songs that want romance, all on equal footing in the same plot of earth? Performed wild, but always centered around the incredible lyrical calm that is Rosali’s voice.
Bite Down makes me think about singers and bands that throw themselves hard into the storm, the way the Rosali quartet does. … The calm of her voice over top of the bands raging—it is the emblem of songs that live to put themselves in harms way. But its not harm. Its just that you have to play hard to get at these goods. The calm of Rosalis voice, the straight talk of her inner search vs. the wildness of the band, the sonic storm she rides in on. Thats their sound."