If ever there was a Philadelphia answer to Arcade Fire or Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Northern Arms seems to be it with their cavernous, dark art rock.
- Julie Miller, WXPN

In simpler shorthand one might describe Northern Arms as the Band in the scriptural grips of a Southern Gothic fever, hallucinatory, visionary, take your pick, its never easy to tell those two apart anyway and both twins are at play here.
- Dave Cantrell, Stereo Embers