"Vetch put on a wonderfully eclectic show, crossing musical genres constantly and impressing audiences with their enthusiasm, energy and musicianship. A very talented New Brunswick trio!"

---Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival (2005)

"Artists as talented as these, music as entertaining as this, and an album as utterly brilliant as Life is Not That Hard do not come around very often. Folks who have grown weary of the lacklustre music they are inundated with every day will welcome the extreme breath of fresh air that is Vetch."

---Lisa Johnson (Ember Swift's press agent)(2004)

"A live Vetch show can be raucous, lulling, hilarious, and clever...sometimes all within one tune."

---Patrick Boyle (2006)

The disc captures the full-on fun of the five-piece, the celebration of the night on stage. There's no preciousness here, these are people that want to make music, have fun doing it and appreciate that there's an audience to join them as well. There's an even desire to create and to entertain. Old favorites such as Story of Three prove they still have a shelf-life, and new tunes show the tap is still wide-open."

Vetch the band, as opposed to Vetch the singer as we first were introduced, has a lot of new options. Two-part horns counter already jazzy melodies. Organ fills erupt out of nowhere, with classic sixties r'n'b hints. There's a recklessness that borders on collapse at times, but that bravado playing only adds excitement. It's live, folks.

I can't think of another band that sounds like Vetch. The combination of instruments, including the instrument of Kora's voice, is strong and one of a kind.

Consider the staggering number of instruments these talented and extremely loveable people play -- trumpet, trombone, bass, drums, keyboard, and sometimes kazoo, with three members contributing harmony so sweet you'd swear they were all related. They take a no-nonsense, all-fun approach to their music. . . . While the sound certainly isn't minimalistic, Vetch sure knows how to keep it real.

. . . Vetch's new material is as fresh and innovative as the old, and takes full advantage of their human resources, particularly Gallant and Robinson's formidable set of pipes. Drummer Andrew Demerchant and bassist Scott Culligan were in top form, and the brass section was as warm and cozy as an angora sweater . . . damn that trumpet player. He freezes the very lymph in my veins with every note.

. . . Vetch aficionados are almost always passionately unconventional dancers . . .

. . . I fogot about what was happening. The bass line was pretty awesome. I felt transported to New Orleans. . . .

And what a CD it is. Especially stellar are Matte and Kora's rocking-yet-wistful duet 'Antipodes' and the idiosyncratic, Eric Nagler-esque 'Ballad of Penelope and Odysseus.' 'Caine's Song' is given new depth with sugar-sweet accompaniment by Jeannine. Somehow the wood paneling and hopsy smell of the Taproom has found its way into the sound of this recording, and the enthusiastic whoops and foot stampings froom the crowd contribute to its off-the-cuff, yet polished and energetic blend. It's a fabulous live album that captures -- imperfectly, of course -- the magnetic energy that these guys exude in every show.