"The Horde and the Harem got me through summer and then fall with their sweet harmonies and good cheer. These are my jams because these are my people. Frisbee-playing, bike-riding, beard-growing Seattleites who are earnest and hardworking, and who smile while they're playing instead of bullshit arty scowling. Their bright, multilayered folk pop has soundtracked my grass-stained knees and then my Thanksgiving leftover-eating on the couch, and now they're releasing "A Long Midwinter" just in time to score my snowball fights (plus the hot toddies afterward), and they're celebrating it tonight. Shout at them to play the songs with trumpets for twice as long, because trumpets fucking rule."
--Anna Minard, The Stranger