"Broken bridges and mended minds lie along the wanderer’s road – Blood and Sun is a dark folk project masterminded by American musician and artist Luke Tromiczak."
"Utterly shredding definition, dense and necessary, this album requires as many listens as you have to fully take in and feel. It’s a rare occasion that music leaves you breathless after each experience, and the effect never loosens its grip. It is a sound of triumph, defiance, and love all in one."
"For my funeral ideally I’d like 40 minutes of renditions of Raffi songs sung by a soprano accompanied by a slightly out of tune piano … The reception following would be catered with bologna sandwiches, decaffeinated coffee, and anchovies labeled as dehydrated herring."
"Whether we like it or not we humans occupy realms of meaning."
"It ticks all the boxes I have for what a good folk album needs to do to move me, and if you’re looking for something a little off the beaten path, then I would highly suggest you give this a shot."
"Love & Ashes trae 9 cortes de sensaciones vanguardistas y letras inspiradas de una noche desolada, reflexionando sobre la naturaleza, la sabiduría y nuevo porvenir. / Love & Ashes brings 9 tracks of avant-garde sensations and inspired lyrics from a desolate night, reflecting on nature, wisdom, and a new future."
"With violin, cello, hammered dulcimer, and subtle, tribal percussion consuming the negative space around the acoustic guitar and cavernous lead vocals of Luke Tromiczak, 'Cedar Smoke' evokes the ghosts of eons past—and the omen of flickering shadows to come."
“'Cast the runes / Of what will be / Blindly turn on destiny,' intones Blood and Sun’s Luke Tromiczak on 'Cedar Smoke,' one of White Storms Fall’s most quietly thunderous tracks. Like a tribal rite synched to a lurching folk strum, the album is a particularly strong example of neofolk circa 2014: mournful yet meditative, attuned to the turning of death into life and back again."
"White Storms Fall is an ambitious work. The album is a sweeping journey through dark and light, carried by solemnly chiming strings and swelling percussion. Tromiczak's voice is deep and sorrowful, lifting above the steady drone of what he describes as 'heathen folk.' The lyrics are heartfelt, complex yet straightforward, drawing upon themes that Tromiczak holds particularly dear."
"Luke Tromiczak has risen to prominence as the intellectual mind behind Blood & Sun but hasn’t had many opportunities to elaborate on the philosophy and influences behind his music. There are few contemporary neofolk artists that don’t think outside the mainstream social dogma, so Malachy O’Brien took the opportunity to sit down with Tromiczak to attempt to pry out these thoughts and their application to his art."
Founder, songwriter, and vocalist Luke Tromiczak’s neofolk band, Blood and Sun, wowed everyone with this, their debut album on Pesanta Urfolk . . . The LP is heavy on atmosphere — a rainy, dark, nostalgic journey through the dusk of the soul."
"They have a wonderfully rich and deep sound that is hard to ignore. It reflects the internal power that this kind of music can have and allows the heart to ring out as you find yourself lost ever deeper in their doomy and quasi-apocalyptic sounds."