“The first of two, new Australian wonders: Augie March are a quintet from Melbourne of jubilant, accessible invention, wrapping the enigmatic songcraft of singer-guitarist Glenn Richards in luxuriant melees of chiming guitars, mountain-stream voices and keyboard grandeur. There are fleeting airs of beguiling precedence -- Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks leading the Flaming Lips instead of Wayne Coyne; the Beatles' ""White Album"" as performed by Super Furry Animals. But on Strange Bird, Augie March's second album, the blend and glow are all their own.”
- DAVID FRICKE, ROLLING STONE (US), DECEMBER 23, 2003

""I'm yet to see a convincing counter-argument to my assertion that we haven't produced a genuinely great act in Australia for a decade or more, but I'm not alone in thinking that Augie March may well be the band we'll look back on in five or 10 years and say, yep, they were the ones. And in songwriter Glenn Richards they have a lyricist without parallel in Australia""
- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 2002 Sydney’s major daily broadsheet

“My favourite album of the year is Augie March’s Strange Bird”
- GUY GARVEY OF ELBOW, THE INDEPENDENT (UK) 26 DEC, 2003.

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