"Millions of two-bit rock bands think they can play the blues. And usually they can - badly. That's because most rock bands don't understand that there's more to the blues than 12 bars, a I-IV-V chord sequence and some lyrics about how your baby done left you. It is obvious The Perpetrators are not one of those misguided outfits. This superlative trio reminiscent of The North Mississippi All-Stars have obviously spent muchos quality time listening, learning, soaking, practising, playing and living the blues in all its many varieties and permutations. In other words, they get it. And they deliver it in spades on their stunning, self-titled debut disc. With drumbeats that shuck 'n' jive like a juke joint on a Saturday night, basslines as thick as a handful of Mississippi mud and guitars that growl and howl like a junkyard dog, these dozen tracks find the boys equally adept at choogling boggie-rockers (12,000 miles), funky hip-swivellers (One More Day), electrified Delta stompers (Crappy Job, Look at You), acoustic folk-blues ballads (Stay Strong), Texas gutbucket sizzlers (Garmonbozia) and hypnotic john Lee Hooker-ish workouts (Six Pack). Put it all together and you've got 44 minutes of blues that's rougher, tougher and stronger than any major-label release we've heard this year. And a disc that can show all those two-bit rock bands a thing or two about playing the blues. 4 1/2 stars out of five"

- Darryl Sterdan, The Winnipeg Sun, July 2003