Sacramento News & Review, 08/14/08
It’s Only Temporary by the Inversions, features five songs reminiscent of the late 1960s that sound a little like some psychedelic bands did, before the drugs inspired them to extend their songs to album-side lengths and beyond. That style, with its martial beats and chord progressions that swerve back and forth between major and minor triads with a few sevenths thrown in, is what those psych bands came up with when they listened to equal parts British Invasion bands and folk revival acts. The tunes (written by members Will Comstock, Adam Varona and Ryan Offield) are quite winning, especially the Varona and Comstock-penned title track. The disc was recorded at Station to Station studio in Grass Valley by its proprietor Dana Gumbiner, who knows a thing or two about fine pop discs (www.theinversions.com).


Sacramento News & Review, 06/19/08 - What's the Cannon For?
While less British-sounding than their previous work, Sacramento noisemakers the Inversions still manage to keep their limey charm; take for instance, the quirky “I Don’t Believe You” or the subdued “State of the Union,” two tracks that carry themselves on sheer simplicity and tidiness. Their whimsical personalities run throughout the disc, exemplified well on “Wishful Thinking,” a sigh of a song in the vain of the Violent Femmes. Ultimately, it’s the band’s element of surprise which keeps the album fresh: What begins as a lazy riff might end as a meandering rock track with witty lyrics and a driving beat. The Inversions at their grimiest are like an unscrubbed Wilco (as on the masterful “It Makes Perfect Sense”), and at their most pristine, they’re an eclectic quartet that indie fans and labels lust after.

Sacramento News & Review, 03/2008 - The Inversions make big-screen debut
In the same weekend that Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard won Oscars for the soundtrack to Once and gave passionate, hopeful acceptance speeches for independent musicians, one of Sacramento’s own indie rock ensembles made its big-screen debut. You won’t find any of The Inversions on screen in the film Jake’s Corner, but you’ll hear the band’s music in its soundtrack. “We got the pivotal popint in the movie,” said Inversions bassist Ryan Offield. "The key action sequence is ours. The final credits are ours."

The independent film about an ex-football player whose life changes when his young nephew falls into his care, debuted at the Sedona International Film Festival in Arizona last weekend. But Inversions’ Ryan Offield said the film will screen in conjunction with (though missed deadlines mean not part of) the Sacramento International Film Festival or just afterward. Visit www.jakescornerthemovie.com for more information.

Arizona Wildcat, 05/2006
Judging by their first album, All is Well, the Inversions could be a 1965-era British Invasion act. The bluesy riffs, the Lennon-esque singing and the songs' general brisk ness all attest to the Sacramento band's close study of bands like the Beatles, the Kinks and the early Rolling Stones.

Top Shelf, 05/25/2006
Sacramento's finest, as near as I can tell. Very nice pop tunes with lots of character, interesting instrumentation and very cool understated vocals.

Sacramento News & Review, 03/2006
"...homage to the Brits with clean guitars, dominant-chord bridges and blues-based riffs. But the record’s best songs, “Money Walks” and “The Graduate,” show energy and inventiveness... “Money Walks,” with its slow melodies over piano, building dynamically, actually does seem kindred to Radiohead’s Kid A. “The Graduate” is the best example of what can happen when a band toys with different genres. It’s a slow, off-rhythm piece that lumbers through a subtle sonic landscape and evokes Call Me Ishmael or slower Smashing Pumpkins."