"Music of incomparable beauty and intensity."  (Better Propaganda)

"At times sparse, at times warmly lush, and always intensely beautiful."  (Filter)

"The Long Winters' long-awaited follow-up to 2003's critically-smothered full-length When I Pretend To Fall is just a handful of studio songs and two live glimpses of poet-picador-crooner John Roderick in elegant action. The mind-wrecking thing is that this EP has more character, wisdom, and emotion than box sets full of so-called classics by bands that sell scads beyond the 'indie rock mafia' Roderick is so ambivalent about...

Ultimatum sounds like a strange title for an EP that seems more like a focusing clarion call for what a possibly history-changing band has coming next. And yet that word makes sense, as the songs here are about things falling apart, and that really is the end, as much as the beginning."  (Three Imaginary Girls)

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