"[Lost Dog's] primary contributors [are] composers scattered around the globe in a cheery virtual meeting place and a colloquium on current trends in music. These communities merged at Waltz-Astoria. Seated at tables or lolling on sofas, around 40 audience members took in a long evening of fresh sounds...There was more than a hint of the serpentine in Samuel Andreyev's haunting "Passages", a gelatinous clarinet soliloquy."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Gems such as Giant Sand, Spoon and obscure composer Samuel Andreyev also surfaced (on Pandora.com). The service allows users to discover some great - but often overlooked - music."
THE WASHINGTON POST
"Striking originality...Andreyev is also an inspired arranger."
THE WIRE
"Toronto's Samuel Andreyev, at 21, issues his eighth self-released album...it offers an impressively consistent world, where Andreyev lives in dreamtime delirium, and invites the rest of us to escape with him from fashionable groupthink."
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
"A very intriguing young composer..."
CBC.CA
"Stopping, du Canadien Samuel Andreyev, réunissait deux vibraphones, en une parfaite concordance des frappes..."
LES DERNIERES NOUVELLES D'ALSACE
"Créations attendues pour cette 26e édition du festival international strasbourgeois...du vétéran Kurtàg au Français Bertrand et au Canadien Samuel Andreyev..."
LIBERATION
"This amazing tape [is] a shambling, clangourous cabaret umbrella-drink cocktail of piano, accordion, cello, clavichord and assorted howls, cries and whispers...hypnotic refrains and screaming breakdowns...I'm very glad this music exists"
BROKEN PENCIL (CANADA)