Press Reviews Wake Up And Help The Homeless!  The Pulse     First up, Cleveland's Mermaid Police will take...     First up, Cleveland's Mermaid Police will take the stage. A duo composed of Jason Dooley and Zac Butler, the pair combine just about every type of indie pop into a sonically beautiful pastiche. With vocals that recall both the Posies and Of Montreal, their lyrics are the stuff of endless collegiate summers and bittersweet romance. The two use electronics as the background for their songs, which exist on the verge between sound collage and pop bliss. Sometimes the music veers toward the realm of clicks and whistles, a la Kompakt, before the guitars swell and explode back into the picture to move the entire enterprise firmly back into the realm of pop. On top of all this, the recordings all have a lo-fi immediacy that recalls the best of the indie rock scene of the late '80s . I imagine this is what Sebadoh would have sounded like if Lou Barlow had eaten a Pixie Stix instead of smoking pot. Very, very cool. The Pulse Chattanooga, TN   "I've been listening to Mermaid Police non-stop, get their excellent CD's at Barking Legs Friday"   Artfront Presentations Robin Merrit   I've been Listening to both  Mermaid Police rec...   I've been Listening to both  Mermaid Police recordings pretty much non-stop and if You have a chance to get  copies of these disks at  Barking Legs this  Friday You will have scored something very rare  and very uplifting  and You will be glad You did.  There's 9 brand new cuts that You can download for free from Mermaid Police's myspace blog but You can see them and two other fine local rock bands perform live Friday night, and get copies of the excellent earlier 10 song Mermaid Police CD to take home for gifts and for yourself.  I'm counting these recordings among the best music I've found over the last year and would not want to go without them.