NY POST on "Cocaine Dreams", Kraine Theater
“There’s one great idea in the play “Cocaine Dreams”...the inspired notion of having an actress (Jill Simon) portray the drug, behaving like a highly seductive mistress. The idea works; Simon couldn’t be better, and the play is very effective in making cocaine appear desirable.”
BACKSTAGE on "Cocaine Dreams"
“ Then appears a lithe woman clad ( in a ) white dress, a physical manifestation of the drug... portrayed by Jill Simon as a wonderfully physical and mute seductress.”
SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE on "Agnes of God"
"Agnes calls for an actress who can portray confused childlike innocence. Amanda Plummer did it on Broadway and Jill (Simon) does it here. As Agnes she is all nerves and wide eyed wonder as she describes her visions... suggests the horrors of her childhood before the facts are ever stated. Jill (Simon's) performance is, at times, stunning."
ZIARUL Clujeanului, Transilvania, Romania, on Musiciens Sans Frontieres:
" The band's powerful recital started around 10pm and it lasted until midnight when the audience called them back on stage for an encore. For the audience this was an opportunity to sense the difference between Romanian and American bands and Thomas Simon's sound was exceptional. Stage presence was also at the highest level as singer Jillie Simon has worked in television and is also an actress. Her acting experience was clearly visible and she is for the most part responsible for the great show that Thomas Simon Musiciens Sans Frontieres had to offer."
B24-Fun, Bucharest, Romania on Musiciens Sans Frontieres:
" ...the band is a great indie rock traveler since they came to perform in front of the "Utopian" audience from Bucharest. On stage, Jillie Simon is the feminine voice that counterbalances Thomas Simon's rough vocals. I think she usually wears white and she is always almost painfully sensual since most of the reviews describe her as being "the light in the dark atmosphere" of the band's music. She has a delicate voice that seems to penetrate dramatically more than musically - like Melanie's voice did, if anyone still remembers her. The band is more than just a geographical wanderer, they also stroll through different musical territories - critics mention the Dead Can Dance tribalism, the Nine Inch Nails twilight, Moby's funk, etc. This means that, as their French name discloses, they are diligently tearing down frontiers; only that which they globalize is not commercial waste. "
NY NEWSDAY (on LOVE ALIEN)
LOVE THAT FUSION: Their band is like a fusion of Screaming Trees and Sophie B Hawkins. They have a slightly grungy psychedelic sound, and Jill (Simon) has a sensuous stage presence and breathy vocals that seem to owe a bit to performance art. It's an intriguing and original sound that is often riveting." - Martin Johnson
CMJ New Music Report - JACKPOT! (on LOVE ALIEN)
- FUTURES - Take Pat Benatar, cross her with Souxie Souix, dress her in a thrift shop burial gown, and the result might look and sound something like Jill M., Love Alien's resident goth/goddess. (Jill) has been garnering rave reviews ( and probably more than her share of stalkers) as front-person for this busy NYC combo. The band itself musically quotes everyone from Echo & the Bunnymen to Love & Rockets, filtering it all through a Bauhausian psychedelic vibe. The electric buzz of the band's sound, combined with (Jill) 's cooing, forms a spiraling blend of solid... musical ideas. (Jill) 's voice would sound right at home at the bottom of some trip-hop groove or even (if produced properly) in the Top 40 dance-pop arena. Together, these two disparate elements - band and vocalist - combine to create a sound all their own; call it trip -grunge or maybe, grunge-hop. Whatever the label... if this wiry ensemble can capitalize on their own strengths, they might just escape the gravitational pull of New York's dark underbelly and explode into the limelight." - Greg Correo
Infinity Press (on LOVE ALIEN)
"The band's secret weapon is exotic vocalist Jill (Simon), who spins together a chanteuse style of glimmer and fury and commands a stage presence of erotic force. ...a holdback from a rock star mold which required a woman to look her best, yet have the talent to back up her flawless image. The songs throw together the best elements of each player, pulling toward Simon's deep vocals in one chorus while anchored down in Francois Gehin's throbbing bass the next. (Jill's) songs are equally excitable, as she drives her sticky sweet vocals into the heart of the... Love Alien rock machine. " - Joey Zielazinski
Network of the World (NOW) UK on LOVE ALIEN
“one of the most promising up & comers in the N.Y. scene”
Legends Magazine review of LOVE ALIEN -"In The Waves" "...a tasty mix of fuzzy, funky, jammy and grungy guitars and Jill's pure angelic voice... The music on the album is so good and Jill's voice is so pretty I had no choice but like it and listen again and again and again. If you need a positive and soulful change of pace, from your hard rock or hip- hop...give Love Alien a listen...mixes well with mellow grunge, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Phish and Tori Amos"
Flagstaff Live
"The group cut it's teeth in Europe, performing around the continent to appreciative crowds and garnering the support of the European press (written up in Finnish music mag RYTMI and various Austrian papers). Love Alien has been equally well received here in the states, having just completed a successful US tour which took them through 12 cities and appearances at a number of high profile clubs like CBGB's and Webster Hall. Love Alien plays to the gap between goth and grunge - then effortlessly slips in and begins building a slender bridge for the daring to walk across. Love Alien's sound is both beautiful and heavy, dark and soaring - tension and release. Musically, the band nods to everyone from Love and Rockets to Iggy Pop to Screaming Trees, blanketing a rock-solid rhythm section with a psychedelic wash of buzzing guitar. (Jill's) sensuous stage presence and ethereal cooing vocals - somewhere between Souxie Sioux and the Cocteau Twins - complete the package..." - Joe Collier
Jersey Beat review of LOVE ALIEN - Blue Planet Preview
Grunged-up, highly ominous and uniquely psychedelicized Gothic-style sonic rumbling. Jill (Simon)'s haunting, purring moan and Thomas Simon's husky growl trade off on the vocals, complementing each other beautifully. Simon's searing, fiercely lingering guitar rifts, Lior Shulman's gutty drums, and Francois Gehin's dense, bottom-heavy bass lines vividly create a calmly flowing, throbbing, very brooding and sinister aural witch's brew that's every bit as creepy and compelling as it ought to be. - Joe Wawyrzniak
“There’s one great idea in the play “Cocaine Dreams”...the inspired notion of having an actress (Jill Simon) portray the drug, behaving like a highly seductive mistress. The idea works; Simon couldn’t be better, and the play is very effective in making cocaine appear desirable.”
BACKSTAGE on "Cocaine Dreams"
“ Then appears a lithe woman clad ( in a ) white dress, a physical manifestation of the drug... portrayed by Jill Simon as a wonderfully physical and mute seductress.”
SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE on "Agnes of God"
"Agnes calls for an actress who can portray confused childlike innocence. Amanda Plummer did it on Broadway and Jill (Simon) does it here. As Agnes she is all nerves and wide eyed wonder as she describes her visions... suggests the horrors of her childhood before the facts are ever stated. Jill (Simon's) performance is, at times, stunning."
ZIARUL Clujeanului, Transilvania, Romania, on Musiciens Sans Frontieres:
" The band's powerful recital started around 10pm and it lasted until midnight when the audience called them back on stage for an encore. For the audience this was an opportunity to sense the difference between Romanian and American bands and Thomas Simon's sound was exceptional. Stage presence was also at the highest level as singer Jillie Simon has worked in television and is also an actress. Her acting experience was clearly visible and she is for the most part responsible for the great show that Thomas Simon Musiciens Sans Frontieres had to offer."
B24-Fun, Bucharest, Romania on Musiciens Sans Frontieres:
" ...the band is a great indie rock traveler since they came to perform in front of the "Utopian" audience from Bucharest. On stage, Jillie Simon is the feminine voice that counterbalances Thomas Simon's rough vocals. I think she usually wears white and she is always almost painfully sensual since most of the reviews describe her as being "the light in the dark atmosphere" of the band's music. She has a delicate voice that seems to penetrate dramatically more than musically - like Melanie's voice did, if anyone still remembers her. The band is more than just a geographical wanderer, they also stroll through different musical territories - critics mention the Dead Can Dance tribalism, the Nine Inch Nails twilight, Moby's funk, etc. This means that, as their French name discloses, they are diligently tearing down frontiers; only that which they globalize is not commercial waste. "
NY NEWSDAY (on LOVE ALIEN)
LOVE THAT FUSION: Their band is like a fusion of Screaming Trees and Sophie B Hawkins. They have a slightly grungy psychedelic sound, and Jill (Simon) has a sensuous stage presence and breathy vocals that seem to owe a bit to performance art. It's an intriguing and original sound that is often riveting." - Martin Johnson
CMJ New Music Report - JACKPOT! (on LOVE ALIEN)
- FUTURES - Take Pat Benatar, cross her with Souxie Souix, dress her in a thrift shop burial gown, and the result might look and sound something like Jill M., Love Alien's resident goth/goddess. (Jill) has been garnering rave reviews ( and probably more than her share of stalkers) as front-person for this busy NYC combo. The band itself musically quotes everyone from Echo & the Bunnymen to Love & Rockets, filtering it all through a Bauhausian psychedelic vibe. The electric buzz of the band's sound, combined with (Jill) 's cooing, forms a spiraling blend of solid... musical ideas. (Jill) 's voice would sound right at home at the bottom of some trip-hop groove or even (if produced properly) in the Top 40 dance-pop arena. Together, these two disparate elements - band and vocalist - combine to create a sound all their own; call it trip -grunge or maybe, grunge-hop. Whatever the label... if this wiry ensemble can capitalize on their own strengths, they might just escape the gravitational pull of New York's dark underbelly and explode into the limelight." - Greg Correo
Infinity Press (on LOVE ALIEN)
"The band's secret weapon is exotic vocalist Jill (Simon), who spins together a chanteuse style of glimmer and fury and commands a stage presence of erotic force. ...a holdback from a rock star mold which required a woman to look her best, yet have the talent to back up her flawless image. The songs throw together the best elements of each player, pulling toward Simon's deep vocals in one chorus while anchored down in Francois Gehin's throbbing bass the next. (Jill's) songs are equally excitable, as she drives her sticky sweet vocals into the heart of the... Love Alien rock machine. " - Joey Zielazinski
Network of the World (NOW) UK on LOVE ALIEN
“one of the most promising up & comers in the N.Y. scene”
Legends Magazine review of LOVE ALIEN -"In The Waves" "...a tasty mix of fuzzy, funky, jammy and grungy guitars and Jill's pure angelic voice... The music on the album is so good and Jill's voice is so pretty I had no choice but like it and listen again and again and again. If you need a positive and soulful change of pace, from your hard rock or hip- hop...give Love Alien a listen...mixes well with mellow grunge, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Phish and Tori Amos"
Flagstaff Live
"The group cut it's teeth in Europe, performing around the continent to appreciative crowds and garnering the support of the European press (written up in Finnish music mag RYTMI and various Austrian papers). Love Alien has been equally well received here in the states, having just completed a successful US tour which took them through 12 cities and appearances at a number of high profile clubs like CBGB's and Webster Hall. Love Alien plays to the gap between goth and grunge - then effortlessly slips in and begins building a slender bridge for the daring to walk across. Love Alien's sound is both beautiful and heavy, dark and soaring - tension and release. Musically, the band nods to everyone from Love and Rockets to Iggy Pop to Screaming Trees, blanketing a rock-solid rhythm section with a psychedelic wash of buzzing guitar. (Jill's) sensuous stage presence and ethereal cooing vocals - somewhere between Souxie Sioux and the Cocteau Twins - complete the package..." - Joe Collier
Jersey Beat review of LOVE ALIEN - Blue Planet Preview
Grunged-up, highly ominous and uniquely psychedelicized Gothic-style sonic rumbling. Jill (Simon)'s haunting, purring moan and Thomas Simon's husky growl trade off on the vocals, complementing each other beautifully. Simon's searing, fiercely lingering guitar rifts, Lior Shulman's gutty drums, and Francois Gehin's dense, bottom-heavy bass lines vividly create a calmly flowing, throbbing, very brooding and sinister aural witch's brew that's every bit as creepy and compelling as it ought to be. - Joe Wawyrzniak
