"Gorgeous chants are laid over electronic beats before Neal allows his own voice to stalk from the shadows with a delicate tone that is reminiscent of Portishead, WIFE and even post-punk at times. It’s an unusual approach to music, meshing the old and profound with new techniques, but it’s one that pays off and imbues Thieves Hymn in D Minor with an edge that is disturbing and gothic in its execution." - CVLT Nation"Thieves Hymn in D Minor has a powerful uniformity and is well-sequenced and arranged as a whole; part of its strength is that it feels like one monolithic work sinking deeper and deeper into oblivion like the slow destruction of the self. Always unravelling a little further into disassociation until all of the elements are left as broken fragments of a former whole." - Echoes and Dust"His dense, dark tomes are composed with manipulated sacred chant music. On “Skin to Jade,” trip-hop beats commingle with a forest of haunting voices that send the imagination reeling. The L.A.-based THIEF, who has done remixes of ***** and Flying Lotus, has completed the full-length album “Thieves Hymn in D Minor,”" - Buzzbands LA"It’s always refreshing when a band that could’ve been marketed as a “members of this other band” project is so wholly removed that all comparisons are rendered pointless. While Los Angeles dark electronic act THIEF’s D. Neal performs as a live member of experimental black metal act Botanist, there’s little similarity between Botanist’s hammered dulcimer-driven chaos and the lush, almost soothing sounds created as THIEF. With Gregorian chant as primary inspiration for THIEF’s music, it’d be easy to assume this would sound like some awkward modern take on the Enigma blueprint, but it’s mercifully removed from all new age dance sounds and is instead a tactfully arranged trip-hop affair with subtle choral work and blissfully tormented lead vocals." - Black Metal and Brewshttps://www.facebook.com/THIEFsounds