Alternative Press Review
Volume 5, Number 3
Fall 2000
From beginning to end, this record amply displays five songs of lively, energetic, hook-laden guitar rock.  There was one overwhelming vision that burned in my mind as I listened to this short collection of upbeat, brimming with confidence, blasts of power-pop:  Oh my God!  -Tom Wheeler
(Review of "fabricate" 5-song version)

Showcase Music Magazine
August 1999
The Rock Out HIV CD has already helped to raise hundreds of dollars for The Children's Place Association, and it's no wonder why.  This CD is filled with really great music.  Braintree's song writting and ability to create plenty of great hooks is outstanding. Braintree could easily find its way to the top of the charts.

Braintree starts off the CD with the straight ahead rock-pop "Simple," followed by the laid-back power groove of "Parasite."  Then Braintree launches into a dizzying, driving frenzy with "The Slow" that realy gets the adrenaline pumping.  Next is the energetic pop song, "Praying for Rain" with the playfull chorus line, "All the monsters underneath my bed, have to go and bother someone else."

Braintree gives us one more very hooky and marketable song, "Don't Know," before handing the CD over to the very capable hands of Evil Genius...  -Tom Drake
(Review of "Rock Out HIV" CD)

Illinois Entertainer
December 1998
Braintree is a band that has mastered the art of dramatic tension on their three-song self-titled tape.  Their riveting guitar rock is hooky and rises, dips, and falls like a good screenplay.  The harmonizing could use some help on the otherwise stellar "Praying for Rain," while "Heal Me" is filled with driving power.  Braintree's music is right on target with a strong but contained guitarist, a drummer that must have killer biceps, and a singer that sounds a little scratchy, but in a good way.  -Gwen Ihnat
(Review of "Heal Me" EP)