The Mermen are an all-instrumental band from San Francisco whose sound harkens back to surf music of the 1960s, but is altered by a blues-psychedelic fusion a` la Neil Young and by devastating spasms a` la Jimi Hendrix, thanks to guitarist Jim Thomas' flights of imagination. There is more than style in Mermen's music: there is an almost fanatical kind of genius.

--Piero Scaruffi (full review)