PRESS REVIEWS

"The year’s greatest album… an instant classic… Lailien’s debut album, Ensoular, is sharp, catchy, angular, and fucking amazing." -- Sonic News Blog

“It really has the impression of this sort of astro-angelic guide leading you through this bizarre fractured cosmos… Dante’s Paradisio on LSD” – Tim Alberdingk Thijm

“Equal parts manic and mesmerizing” – The Line Of Best Fit

“Extravagant, colourful and energetic… Unconventional and revolutionary…” – PlanetSinger

“Offers a mind-blowing listening experience” – Electro Wow

“Beautifully complicated and fearlessly unorthodox” – RatingsGameMusic

“Music that is transcendent, disorientating, metaphysical but most of all - bloody brilliant!” – Indie Crush

"“The album sounds like capitalism did too much acid and then happily decided to beat itself to death in space. I love it.” – Arshile Egoyan

“Lailien’s music is some of the most gloriously idiosyncratic pop you’re likely to encounter.” – Mike O’Cull

“Cosmic, quirky, and intricate… A musician & composer who exhibits a stunning degree of originality in his work.” – Splendid Industries

"Lailien is a Canadian alternative artist who channels the greatest sonic shapers in history... elements of David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, and David Byrne... sounds like a rock band operating from a secret recording studio on Mars." – Music Farmer 5

“Defies logic and creates an incredible listening experience” – NeuFutur Magazine

“In the annals of music’s most interesting power pop songs… A mystical, dreamlike traversing through dusk and dawn” – Music Existence

“An electronic pop extraordinaire… releasing sounds yet to be discovered” – Skope Magazine

“A very warm but assertive transcendence” – Michael Harman