… a sprawling, ragtag collection of lyrics tracking Thorne’s journey from his first teenage efforts straight through to the present day … an odd, off-colour form of auto-biography with a narrator in constant flux and as trust-worthy as a sneer … flashes of high-romance and aspirations countered by crushing defeats and blatant vulgarity as he trudges his way through cities and continents, lovers and bands, colliding full on with the tragedies and beauty which construe an itinerate life … a solipsistic gang-bang of hopes and failure … ‘Etched in the Ether’ is a battlefield of human experience where no ideal is spared scrutiny, the author least of all …
-Veronica Malay