"Chikinki... star signings to new Bristolian label Sink and Stove are sensational - a preposterous collision of Super Furries, Stooges and Add N To (X). Robo-punks playing glam-racket electroclash krautrock while wearing space-age sunglasses. Fucking great! Future of rock rating: 11. Easily." - New Musical Express

"Chikinki are the perfect and ever-so English response to the Strokes, a band with a bonafide shivers-down-the-spine factor and the potential to be huge. New single 'Like it or Leave it' deserves shrines to be built in it's honour and should send the lo-fi heroes stellarwards on it's release." - Venue

"Chikinki they're on a somewhat destructive mission. The words distortion and overload reach a whole new dimension on that one. I can really see volume controls jumping into the red. Hooray! Bring on the noise, that's what I say! This one rocks! Chikinki are the best band I've heard this year. 5/5" - DrownedInSound.com

"'Like it or Leave it' is a dizzy poppers-style headrush of instant hooks and XR3i bass. It's got a daft 'baby, baby, baby' chorus that's as mindlessly infectious as anything by the likes of Pete Waterman. It rocks with a vengeance despite bearing about as much relation to the self-conscious rock revivalism of The Strokes and The Hives as a cabbage does to a king. It's quite simply the finest Bristolian debut single since Tricky's 'Aftermath'; a shining example of how to be startlingly original and still sound like you're having loads of fun. All hail Chikinki, and let's hope their moment has come at last." - Choke

"Chikinki, on wonderfully eclectic Bristol label Sink and Stove, are one of those bands that can’t be pigeonholed. A more urgent Massive Attack? Aphex Twin with tunes? Autechre with vocals? Spring Heel Jack with soul? Kings of Convenience with a record bag of techno? Chikinki are all of these, in all honesty. Title track ‘Like It Or Leave It’ is chart-worryingly funky vocals over a throbbing, stuttering, fucked up burst of electronica. It’s an ill-matched and utterly compulsive combination, a stunning dose of desperate cacophonics and cackling histrionics. Second track ‘Robotic Age’ is very nearly the stand-out. Freaky and urgent, it races along, blisteringly chaotic, collapsing on itself again and again before fizzing out completely. But it’s edged out by the unexpected ‘Let’s Get Lost’, a sombre acoustic vocal-driven number that’s out of touch with the rest of the EP and all the better for it. No, Chikinki are eclectic all right. It’s impossible to know what to expect, but you can be sure it’ll be good." - Fruitbowl

"Just when you thought the West Country’s musical landscape was getting all safe and predictable again, a gaggle of misfit urchins in boiler suits confound all previous form and throw out a single that is really quite beyond compare." - Decode

"Chikinki released one of 2001’s best, if madly demented albums. ‘LIOLI’ is taken from that album, backed with three brand new efforts, and you really should buy it ‘cos it pisses all over the Super Furries from a great height. 8/10" - Footloose In London

"A right old racket." - Jockey Slut

"Fed up of wallowing around in a mire of indistinguishable indie-wank and karaoke lite pop crap? Yes? Then Chikinki could well be your island of salvation. While that might sound like overdoing it, you have to appreciate that Bristol’s finest, and perhaps only, self-styled squelch-beat noise-niks are just that little bit special. New single, ‘Like it or Leave it’ is a prime example of Chikinki at their best. It starts with a fragile acoustic guitar, joined by a lonesome keyboard and everything seems sweet and fluffy. Then full-on bastard bass heavy electronic drums kick in, singer Rupert - no surnames, Chikinki were born to be stars, and what use do stars have of a second name? - is muttering evil things that may well be about stalking and voyeurism ('I caught a glimpse of her rose and I can’t leave her alone, my parents thought freedom went wrong because I can’t leave her alone'). It’s Brainiac played by Squarepusher, and it’s damn near perfect. Chikinki pull it off with style and aplomb." - Bleedmusic

"Dysfunctional breakdown over unrequited lust taken from last year’s splendid debut album ‘Experiment with Mother’, as pastoral acoustic guitar gives way to paranoiacally insistent, distorted bass and general claustrophobic malaise at the realisation that 'I can’t leave her alone'. Emotional impotence never sounded so appealing. 4/5" - Venue