Some things said about our debut album Bliss! If there's been an article or a mention about us that we've missed, write to us and let us know: band@the-positions.com

WAMU Metro Connection December 2, 2005
"[Someday] is how the Positions album opens: with gently strummed guitar and jazzy bass, recalling such British lounge-rock bands as Aztec Camera...melodically ["Forever"] suggests Heavenly, a UK indiepop band from the early '90's. The Positions style also encompasses many other influences, from the Ronettes to Haircut 100...The Positions were formed by Ivan Ramiscal, clearly something of a Britpop scholar...This music is so sunny that it justifies the album title's exlamation point. Appropriately, the liveliest track is 'Summer Nights', a song that should warm the hearts of Anglophiles, and just about everybody else." {listen to the full review}

Chart Attack November, 2005 (Canada)
"Ivan Ramiscal, late of Washington, D.C. synth-poppers Barcelona, indulges his musical sugar jones to sweet effect on the debut disc by his newest band The Positions. Ramiscal and his five bandmates put virtually the entire history of top-40 radio into a blender and come out with a winning collection of light, catchy tunes...The three-minute confections on this record aren't meant to inspire deep thought, so best to heed Stoops' advice from the title track: "Don't resist/just submit to bliss." {full review}

The Examiner November 28, 2005 (Washington, DC)
"The Washington music scene always seems to be epitomized by two musicians: Chuck Brown and Fugazi...But there is more to D.C. music than just Go Go and hardcore, and if there is any justice in the world, “The Positions” will make the beginning of a local indie-pop revival...On its latest album, “Bliss!” The Positions perpetuate just that — bliss. With the help of a brilliant horn section (trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn), the band builds up an impressive wall of sound that would make Phil Spector proud." {full review, 105kb PDF}

Hitch Magazine October 25, 2005 (USA)
"If this world weren't so damned jaded, The Positions would be on top of it. On the aptly titled BLISS!, their easy-breezy brand of uptempo pop is laden with trombones, trumpets and an all-around dose of good-natured optimism - infectious without being cloying.... Even if it's a dull gray outside, it's guaranteed to make the sun shine in your heart." {full review}

One Chord to Another (Finland)
"I do believe that it's the best band Ivan and Nicole have been involved in...the Positions makes life easy for a lazy reviewer, because there is no need to pick out the stand-out tracks, because all of the songs are similarly fabulous, full of the sweetest hooks, convincing singing (also some awesome male-female harmonies are a lovely bonus for a boy who thinks that harmonies are probably the greatest thing in music) and clever arrangements....four-and-a-half out of five." {full review}

Also in One Chord to Another:
Bliss! is #13 in the top 40 albums of 2005 {full article}