"Y'all real good" - Vic Chesnutt.

"Man, he's got a beautiful voice! What language is he singing in?" - Victoria Williams.

Praise for This Block single (2010):

"It’s a very subtle tune resting on a piano bounce, with the melange of instruments building gradually over the mostly two chord material. The vocals are vulnerable, but not too weepy, and the layers and diversity of instrumentation keep it very interesting without becoming unnecessarily wanky. It’s backed with I Wish I Was On A Plane Somewhere which is much less produced, but no less charming with nothing more than a single elegant guitar line and scratchy, yearning vocals, leaving heaps of blank space and some room for your imagination."

Time Off, Brisbane

Praise for Limbs May Fall album (2008):

"Australia's sublime alternative to country".

Rhythms Magazine (in writer Brett Leigh Dicks' top ten records for the year)

"A more challenging and diverse composition than their earlier work... khancoban are more focused on inspiring an emotion than simply creating one, and the pervading sentiment is as eerie as it is serene."
Beat Magazine

"Deep, resonant and sincere" 79/100

Wireless Bolinger

"An extraordinary debut album... the songs on this record creep up on you slowly, like memories, and take their place in the part of your heart reserved for truly impressive art"
Inpress

"Running parallel with this little punk renaissance and, depending on your world view, either despite or because of it, young local bands also made a great impression: if you haven’t heard The Holy Sea, khancoban or Clinkerfield, what the hell’s wrong with you?"

Tony McMahon, of Inpress, on listing Limbs May Fall in his top ten records of 2008 (3rd).

A live review of our Melbourne launch show for Limbs May Fall:

KHANCOBAN Northcote Social Club

"The backdrop of Khancoban's first full-length album release, Limbs May Fall draws your attention at once to the simplicity of a flooded field amidst a series of dried out tree trunks. Upon first glance, wintery trepidation sets in, but on the evening of the eleventh of October, wintery trepidation couldn't be further from reality. A balmy beer sodden eve feels much more like a reawakening of a beautiful sunny truth: not least of all for Khancoban with their impressive debut album's release.
Displaying a combination of clean percussion timing (Jemima Hooke) and atmospheric control (Andrew Bonnici, electric guitar/lap steel), Khancoban's set dipped and climbed under the guidance of Andre Hooke's humble yet intensely powerful presence throughout the night. Delving into and beyond Limbs May Fall, continuous specks of mood enhancement built track upon track from drifting soundscapes (Ghosts in This Lake, By the Lights, Comedy Night, Smoke and the Light) to crunchy riffs and tightly crafted pop (Such a Big Sky, I Wish I was on a Plane Somewhere). Finally, new track This Isn't Madness drove the show home gently enticing the crowd towards the grand epic finale of These Lines Can Ce Traced.
The key ingredient inside Khancoban's melting pot of live creativity is their affect upon the listener. Witnessing the mechanics of the show in the flesh, it becomes apparent that this is not just a fluke either. No doubt the music takes you places, but it's through the appreciation that Pete Cohen (bass) and Andre Hooke have for the moment, (intensely drawn into the creeping melodies and swaying lullabies like sage masters), that truly gives Khancoban's live shows a special kind of soothing gloss.
Wrapping up the release of Limbs May Fall, the crowd eventually shuffled out from the creative comfort zone inside the band room's comfy hub, and back out into the drunken abyss. The band room's seventies swirled scarlet carpet reappeared and the bar once again was accessible leaving remaining punters quite ecstatic, and Jemima and Andre Hooke behind the tee-shirt stall looking very satisfied indeed."

Shane P. Bennett, Beat Magazine

Praise for khancoban mini album (2006):

“Striking for its simplicity and restraint”
Mess + Noise.

“The quiet grace is compelling. A little record you will take to heart”
Drum Media.

“khancoban’s debut mini-album is full of amazing ideas and unrestrained promise”
DB Magazine.

“Speaks volumes against the fast pace of … well, everything else out there”
Time Off

"The territory is spacious interior music, big on emotion but small on drama. There's something of the early Augie March, except with more country shadings in the aching ballads, as well as something of the grey skies of Smog with a touch less grime".
Sydney Morning Herald.

"indescribably, quintessentially Australian sound"
Rip It Up