"Machine Go Boom's Thank You Captain Obvious is the grown up version of a bunch of kids on a pile of rubble throwing rocks at bags in trees." --Wheelchair Riot

"Thank You Captain Obvious is one of the best albums of the year, because of its deft concoction of quirkiness and seriousness. Machine Go Boom has made one of the few albums where the cover of the album perfectly illustrates the contents: Nothing but pure enjoyment." --INK 19

"Machine Go Boom's energy and unpretentiousness, not to mention Mikey's knack for writing a catchy a pop hook and willingness to shriek out 'la-la-la' whenever necessary, are plenty charming. . . . MGB throw everything they've got into Thank You Captain Obvious, and props are the least one can offer." --tinymixtapes

(DAN ZP's #1 ALBUM OF 2004.) "I guess the first name to invoke is Neutral Milk Hotel, but Mikey Machine has 1) a sense of humor and 2) a Midwestern appreciation for sloppiness. Both qualities pile their way into Captain Obvious as gleefully as frat guys cramming into a phone booth. Then once you're chuckling, deep in the task of puzzling out MGB's sonics and asides, the emotion of the songs will ambush you utterly. Sneaky bastard, that Mikey. 'Li'l Devil' boils our President down to a pair of hot, angry-red nubs; 'The Punchline Song' out-wearies Mark Eitzel by throwing in a wink, and 'Ms. Hepburn's House' is startlingly beautiful, even as its helium vocal trembles. This is a crazy-sounding album from a goofy-sounding band -- but in the end it isn't fooling around at all." --Zapruder Point

"Exciting and enjoyable and worth a listen or ten." --Punk Planet

"A remarkably innocent, unfiltered, joyously free chunk of pop genius, infused with a sense of childish glee and plenty of reckless abandon."
--spacecityrock

"Machine Go Boom is hard to categorize. It's not a band, but one guy called "Mikey Machine." At times, Mikey is creating terrific Ween-like rock, as on "Captain Obvious," and other times he's mixing that style up with some Devendra Banhart-ish moments as on the opening track, "Lil Devil." So basically what you have here is something completely original and fresh and worth picking up. Other tracks, like the oddly sincere "What My Buddy Said" almost border on '70s acoustic So-Cal pop, while "Hot Potato" and "The Kazoo Star" take off in the freaky directions you might expect them to with those titles. But it's all very modern and quirky in the end, making Thank You, Captain Obvious one of those albums that reminds you of how great indie-pop can often be." --PopMatters

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Originally released on Collectible Escalators (Cleveland, OH)