Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice —GREIL MARCUS

As songwriters it's the eerie, ancestral voice of ‘Anonymous’ they ultimately resemble the most —THE CHICAGO READER

This is music that moves forward by turning the clock back— haunting, primal and
strangely heroic —THE LONDON TIMES

Where others retrace well-trodden paths and humdrum traditions,
The Handsome Family go off-road to hunt down phantoms, to update forgotten myths and ancient black jokes —UNCUT

Dark, elemental, mischievous and mournful —MOJO

The Handsome Family - as funny as fuck, as sweet as love, and as serious as death—UNCUT

Each song is like an abridged Flannery O'Connor story read aloud by Johnny Cash,
hovering somewhere between the metaphysical and the mundane —NME

The Guardian, UK, names "Weightless Again" one of the 100 essential songs about Heartbreak
"Here the alt-country husband and wife duo document the tragedy of a relationship that has cooled into mundanity, who travel from coffee shop to motel with no idea how to reignite the passion they once felt for one another. Yet both feel the heavy responsibility of their partnership, recalling that the first time they slept together "it felt like when you learned to float"- now our narrator observes "This is why people OD on pills/and jump from the Golden Gate Bridge/anything to feel weightless again" In mood, the song carries the same ominous gravity as a murder ballad, a dark country tale sung in the deepest, swampiest of voices, it conveys the desolation of love gone wrong"

10 Other Great Songs by The Handsome Family from The LA TIMES