​Sam Eastmond

"The British band has done a terrific job at exerting its own polystylistic personality and honouring the composers spirit"

Downbeat June 2016

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"The Spike Orchestra fuses klezmer with surf rock in an oddly resonant admixture, run through the apparatus of a jazz big band."

New York Times

Playlist March 16 2018

"The Spike Orchestra, a 16-piece ensemble, evokes many things, including Charles Mingus’s large-group jazz, surf-rock, and klezmer music."

Wall Street Journal