“Kate McCandless samples music as hungrily as Girl Talk, but she doesn’t use a computer. With her band She Speaks in Tongues, the singer and guitarist repurposes well-worn rock and blues classics into new narratives… McCandless unravels threads from the music she loves to knot together her own bizarro-world reimaginings, a process she describes… as “a necessary feminist act…a reclaim of agency.” She sings her hybrids as if they’ve always been hers—and in a way, they always have been…” -Sasha Geffen, Chicago Reader
VOYAGEKC MAGAZINE (KANSAS CITY)//life & work of kate mccandless (2023)
CHICAGO READER//voted “best rock n roll exorcism” for best of chicago (2015)
CHIRP RADIO (CHICAGO)//best of 2014 (2014)
OLD SCHOOL RECORD REVIEW// record review of gloria, GUITAR (2014)
THE CEREBRAL RIFT//record review of gloria, GUITAR (2014)
HUFFPOST//she speaks in tongues: the band that changed my mind (2013)