Sort of an honorable mention in Kevin Moist's 2006 Year in Review over at Deep Water Acres. Mighty nice of him.

Finally, I'll end on a note of promise (one to grow on, as grandpa used to say), and another ltd release. One of my pleasant musical surprises this year was a fine slice of home-grown drone from Oklahoma: New Crusaders of the 11th Commandment is the mysteriously titled second CD by the increasingly fine Anvil Salute, and the first on their own Maritime Fist Glee Club label, & it sure is mighty nice to hear. A deceptively simple collection of lovely instrumental folk with a full but also rustic sound, rhythmic drones strummed and sawed and plucked and percussed (w/ very occasional voice and horns), a thicket of sound that subsumes individual instruments into a flow larger than any of its parts, intricately twining yet still free to stretch beyond. While the roots are deeply American - a take of Dock Boggs's "Sugar Baby" pays proper tribute but maybe doesn't come off as strong some of their own pieces - the branches stretch far enough to incorporate everything from Eastern sounds to bits of jazz; dustbowl Sufis enacting plains devotionals to the four corners. In a time of rampant excess, this is music that captivates by subtlety and restraint and really gets somewhere as a result. I feel like these folks are just starting to figure out what all they can do, and if they keep searching I think they may come out with some pretty swell sounds in '07.