UK journal GIGWISE has a lengthy feature on "Doomsday Piano" where they note "best work to date" and "one of the more imaginative releases you’re likely to hear this year."

TIME OFF remark on Steve's unpleasant habit of scaring children and then laughing about it, but they also say that "humour and haunting darkness... wonderfully characterises Doomsday Piano" and predict a lucrative future for the album. That would be nice.

Brisbane's COURIER MAIL sez of Doomsday Piano: "songs that sometimes sound as if they have beamed in from an alternative-pop dimension" . They also gave it a separate 4 star review, "achingly beautiful, moving pieces".

The Australian sez "a strange and wonderful hybrid", "deliciously warped pop sensibility" and "highly original". Also 4 stars.

The ABC sez: "A genre-defying album of intelligent, humorous songwriting and lyricism that harbours wild ingenuity alongside dedicated musicianship". Also 4 stars.

Beat Magazine sez the album flies “in the face of whatever fashion currently holds sway”.

FasterLouder sez it’s “strikingly original and undeniably unique”.

Jetstar Magazine(!) say,

"This seems to me to be a recording an entirely new mode; neither jolly juke box collection, nor warts and all confessional. Here we have an autobiographical ant farm, or a house sawn in half to reveal kooky domestic tableaux: but the whole is produced with the deliberate intent and artistry of a painting as opposed to the pretence at real emotion and humanity that a lot of recorded music presupposes as a condition of its existence, not understanding that 'real' can be as much of a mask as any other performance persona. "Doomsday Piano" is a vivid personal artifact and Steve Appel's singing is fantastic."

There’s an interview with Steve here, in which he likens Don Walker to Clint Eastwood and reveals a song he would have liked to have written solely fer the filthy lucre.

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