Press Quotes
Sonny Vincent – So true to his convictions that Keith Richards would appear like an ‘avant-guard’, an explorer, a jazz rocker.
Philippe Manoeuvre, RockNfolk Magazine
When the nuclear winter truly sets in and punk, jazz, surf, garage, rock, blues and any other music is produced by a robot or a DJ stealing someone else’s songs – Sonny Vincent will be The Last Man Standing. … Vincent cut his teeth with cult favorites Testors on the Lower East Side. Sonny’s been blazing away ever since, playing with a dizzying array of the underground’s good, bad and ugly. He’s criminally under-appreciated by the mainstream but wholeheartedly embraced by anyone brave or smart enough to lift the rug and peer underneath.
I94Bar – The Barman
Vincent sings as if his (and your) life depends on it. And each and every damn guitar solo reminds you why you loved rock’n’roll in the first place.
Michael Little, Washington City Paper
He’s able to perfectly capture the swinging sloppiness of blues rock and fit it into the angry energy of punk. He does it so well that you can’t pick out which parts are punk or which parts are rock and roll. Instead, all you have is a single slamming mass of wild music.
John Gentile, Punknews.org
Songs almost too bitter and raw to be so well written. It’s too rare for a real songwriter to fall into punk. For someone to fuse vision with viciousness, but Vincent is up there with the greats: the sad songs are every thing Elvis Costello was supposed to be and the mean songs are so caustic, they’d melt paint.
Chris Ziegler, Orange County Weekly
And I think that’s what has always been so appealing about Sonny Vincent to me…he’s the REAL DEAL! A true rock n roll troubadour in the highest regard! If you like your punk rock raw and real, pick this 7″ up now! They just don’t make em like this anymore!
Critical Mass 2013
TRASHY SPITTING PUMMELING SMASHING BLEEDING DRUNKEN BAR-BRAWLING PUNK RAAAAAAAWWWWWKKKK………..LOUD AND MEAN, JUST AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED…… stay away mall punks coz this 7 inch will leave you with a black eye and a nasty hangover….. SONNY VINCENT is playing rock n roll as fierce as ever, and if you call yerself a fan of PUNK ROCK, you need this fucking single right fucking now…… the word recommended doesn’t say it strong enough.!!!!
Tiny Grooves 2012
This is punk heaven. Super high-charged, ass-kickin, The-way-it-should-be Rockn-Roll.
Miss Amy, Candy For Bad Children
TESTORS featuring Sonny Vincent – possibly New York’s perfect punk band. Singer-guitarist Sonny Vincent tears past Richard Hell – even Tom Verlaine, maybe even Johnny Thunders – with songs almost too bitter and raw to be so well written. It’s too rare for a real songwriter to fall into punk, for someone to fuse vision with viciousness, but Vincent is up there with the greats: the sad songs are everything Elvis Costello was supposed to be and the mean songs are so caustic, they’d melt paintt. It’s a crime against history that the Testors never got their due: a band like this could and should have changed everything.
Chris Ziegler, Orange County Weekly
Testors erupted on the New York scene at the epicenter of the punk rock explosion in 1976. Little has been known about this band until now due to their fiery temperament and desire to burn every bridge in sight. Their incendiary sound consisted of dueling guitar noise, scrapping garage bashing and Sonny Vincent’s street poetry. Their earliest recordings are considerably tougher, louder and more desperate than any other music made at that time (or since). Testors were a beautiful mess. Absolutely one of the most raw, catastrophic, and shocking bands to ever grace the stage of Max’s Kansas City and CBGB’s during the mid-70’s punk heyday.
The Swami
Testors…..that’s why this music stands the test of time. It’s painfully delicate, and savagely persuasive, and after you let it latch onto your soul, you’re forever indebted to New York’s toughest, rawest, REALest, punk band for the rest of your fucking life.
Todd Killings, Horizontal Action