All Music Guide

"Discharging ponderous selections within the darkest choices of punk rock and combining it with influences coming from the industrial style and other aggressive musical pickings, BINKY displays a unique kind of combative hardcore rock. Assembling in San Francisco, CA, BINKY associates the experiences of a female crew, comprising Klara Lux (guitar, vocals), Windy Wild (drums, vocals), Erin Luther (trumpet), and Mia d'Bruzzi (bass). Their considerable musical experience and powerful live shows rapidly opened the way for them to become one of the major acts in San Francisco's hardcore scene. In 1998, d'Bruzzi left, later, being substituted by Tijanna Eaton. Following countless inflamed concerts, the female quartet delivered its first disc, Kissthemall goodbye, in late 2000." ~ Mario Mesquita Borges

Adam reviews BINKY
Zero Magazine
" BINKY, a superb product out of "the City", are an all-girl 4 piece. But no sugar/spice/nice junk here, these girls are fierce! The music is a sort of punk/speedmetal-art/thrash, everyone sings (drummer does most lead), there's the first ever heavy metal trumpet played by Erin Luther, excellent punk/thrash guitar of Klara Lux. Drummer Windy Wild could eat Slayer's Dave Lombardo for breakfast (while singing) and an awesome tight-clean bass guitar comes from "screaming" Tijanna Eaton. The whole band dresses in post nuclear white vinyl uniforms...sexy."

metalmaidens.com

BINKY-Kissthemallgoodbye (Amoeba Records SF/Berkeley)
"I get sick and tired of the danceable pop music I hear on the radio. When that happens I need something like “Kiss The Mall Goodbye”. The first song is called “Carny”. It starts at full force. There’s a long, heavy long intro. The drumming is by Windy Wild. It is thunderous throughout. I don’t know, if ‘Wild’ is her real name. It sure fits her drum style though. Then there’s a trumpet. Yes, a trumpet. Erin Luther plays it. I realize you will get thrown out of most heavy metal bands for even suggesting a little bit of trumpet sound. It works well for BINKY and it makes the music spookier. The vocal lines are distorted, to the point that the words aren’t easy to understand. A lyric sheet would have helped. Even without words it’s scary stuff. Thrash fanciers will like “Doomsday Loser”. You can hear Tijanna Eaton on bass, alternating with the drums. Klara Lux plays a surprising number of guitar chords in a short period of time. This song is intense, to say the least. I’m not sure whose death grunt that is though. There’s a slow passage at the end, then “Doomsday Loser” grinds itself to a halt. There are three other songs on this CD. If you like music that charges at you like a train, you’ll like this. Not recommended for the weak."

[8 points] (Jack Little)

Maximum BINKY
Maximum Rock N Roll
" Freddy Krueger meets Fellini; the trumpet adds a real unconventionality and an intriguing sound."

SF Weekly
"Saturday, March 5, 2005
There was a period in the '80s during which music magazines enthused over the emergence of "girl groups" like the Go-Go's, Pat Benatar, and Joan Jett. But Jett took exception to her hard rock being compared to the output of pop songstresses, at one point even asking something like, "What do I have to do to get compared to the Kinks -- grow a penis?" Considering that many still believe female musicians produce only teeny-bopper pop (Britney and her ilk) or neo-soul (Mary J. Blige, India.Arie), a penis might have helped. But the female foursome Binky is a horse of a different color, producing infectious punk-metal soundscapes laced with pounding drums, throbbing bass, and curiously cheerful trumpet blasts that rock as hard as anything Metallica ever made. See the gals tonight, with Cookie Mongoloid and Aqui, at 9 p.m. at 12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission (at 22nd Street), S.F. Admission is $8; call 970-9777 or visit www.12galaxies.com."