“In an era where people eschew tangibility for technology, Butcher Brown is
a ray of hope for the future. They are soldiers of peace, armed with respect
for the lineage of Black music, who aren’t afraid to push forward. Rooted in
the soil of the earth, their music reflects an aesthetic that exists beyond
chronology. As anomalous as brown leaves of fall on a spring tree, they
cause you to question exactly how a group of relatively “young” men possess
such “old” souls.
 
They are agents of a contiuum. A spectrum of color that defies categorical
constructs, like that of dusk settling across the evening sky. They are a
subtle, yet beautiful, reminder that after the darkness of nightfall,
We are soon to expect the promise of the sun.
 
#BAM
– Nicholas Payton
Aka The Savior of Archaic Pop

 
“Butcher Brown — the Richmond, VA, quartet of multi-instrumentalist Devonne
Harris AKA DJ Harrison (keys), Keith Askey (guitar), Andrew Randazzo (bass)
and Corey Fonville (drums) — is one of the most uproariously good bands to
break onto the scene in recent memory. Their free EPs, a & b-sides, have a
replay value that two works gotten for free from the internet just shouldn’t
sensibly have. This group is good, too good, like if Madlib’s solo-jazz
project, Yesterday’s New Quintet, suddenly sprouted three more heads.
They’re cool without trying. They’re funky but not cheesy. They sound like a
jam session in a cloud.”
 
– Anthony Dean-Harris, NextBop.