"Proof that groovy dirty jazz isn't just the preserve of downtown New Yorkers"BBC Radio 3

"Imagine a super-group featuring Zorn, Berne, Donny Hathaway, Sid Vicious and Robert Wyatt and you're halfway there."  John Lewis Time Out

"Unruly, Pinski Zoological sounds, these, from New Jersey-born drummer Mark Holub's energetic group.  With two alto saxophones, Fender Rhodes and bass, it's a deliberately old-fashioned concept that manages to work fresh angles on something as hackneyed as a Satie "Gymnopodie" and a David Byrne song.  Holub does almost all of the writing, though saxophonist Chris Williams claims a credit with the fine "Post Invasion Plan".  Gritty, raunchy jazz from a group who deserve to be checked out."  Brian Morton The Wire

"Embracing everything from Erik Satie to David Byrne via Klezmer music"  John Fordham The Guardian

"Woozily beautiful twin alto sax attack" Robert Shore The Metro

"The band sounds wild and dirty...you could feel the songs in the heart and in the stomach"  Koen Schouten De Volkstrandt (review of gig at Europa Festival, Rotterdam)

"Painfully intense" Chris Parker Jazz UK

"...A disc which encompasses a hefty number of post Ornette stylistic areas ranging from Free Jazz through Free Improv to the NY Downtown scene, with plentiful Funk and Punk en route. And yet, despite this diversity and seeming disparity, the sheer energy, spiritedness and raggedy togetherness of the playing makes ‘Arboretum’ an uplifting experience, and the album has an overall, winning coherence. A fine debut." Mike Hodges Jazz Views (Click for whole review)

"Led by New Jersey-born drummer Mark Holub, this London-based punk-jazz quintet certainly flaunt their John Zorn obsessions (the twin alto sax frontline, the frequent excursions into willfully hardcore improv) and also share Zorn's fondness for klezmer (taking an Erik Satie theme into Yiddish territory).  But they cover other bases: the bubbly Fender Rhodes on 'Joyous Hangover' and 'Aural Assault' recalls Herbie Hancock; the fractured funk of 'Clatter' is pure Art Ensemble of Chicago; while their lengthy assault on 'Talking Heads' 'Memories Can't Wait' shows a more ruminative mode."  John Lewis Time Out

"New Jersey smacks into Hackney on this splendidly energetic debut...with slabs of spitting improvisation squaring off against urgent riffs.  The re-working of Satie is novel, with 'Gnossienne No 1' given an eastern(well, east end) reading that has all the verve of Ridley Road Market....a highly enjoyable first album."  Andy Robson Jazzwise

"Their viscerally powerful music should appeal to a wide constituency: fans of hard-edged, punky rock, free-jazz listeners, funk aficionados."Chris Parker The Vortex (Click for complete review)

"...one of the most important surprises of the year...It's a work perfectly done that puts together, with wisdom, different current tendencies of acoustic and electric jazz."4 Stars!
Cosimo Parisi, Musicboom, Italy  Click here for the full article

"Led Bib is fab - exciting, loopy, admirably raucous at times, and packed with improvising talent.  Check out their take on Satie:  it's good to hear nice old tunes done in a horrible new way!"Eddie Parker(composer, flautist, pianist)