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Selected Interviews

Brainwashed January 2012
http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9065%3Amichael-begg-the-evolution-of-a-voice&catid=74%3Ainterviews&Itemid=91

The Quietus August 2011
http://thequietus.com/articles/06871-human-greed-interview-fortress-longing

Blow Up September 2011 (in Italian)
http://omnempathy.com/2011/09/06/blow-up-interview-with-michael-begg/

Musique Machine February 2010
http://musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=166

Tokafi September 2010
http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/interview-michael-begg/

Paraphilia Magazine (also contains Michael Begg’s text “Moon Suite”)
http://issuu.com/paraphiliamagazine/docs/paraphilia_three

Adverse Effect May 2009
http://adverse-effect.blogspot.com/2009/05/fine-arts-of-language-and-sound.html

Reviews

Fortress Longing
“Staggeringly beautiful music… utterly dreamlike… one of the albums of the year”
Brainwashed

“A studio master creating an album of of mystery and imagination… contains so many moments of sheer perfection. Impossible to pin down. Impossible to put down”Was Ist Das

“A rich release full of hidden drama. Excellent.”
Vital Weekly

“Fortress Longing has the confidence and construct of a single orchestral symphony… with the unpredictable power to chill or destroy”
Musique Machine

“A gorgeous one-hour aural journey”
Francois Couture

“The music unfolds as a beautiful symphony from a parallel universe… It is a grand and compelling masterpiece of unprecedented splendour.”
Caleidoscoop

Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star

“Black Hill occupies a realm that is somewhere between the gorgeous drones of Stars of the Lid and the haunting and solemn “Symphony No. 3” by Henryk Górecki. This is powerful stuff and takes a while to fully digest it. The oily darkness that the music conjures up gets deeper and deeper with every listen, a resonant and otherworldly tremor that is at once human and sublime.”
Brainwashed

PILGRIM: New World Homestead

“This is night music, which ripples with your deepest and darkest doubts… Human Greed have managed to conjure up a chilling collection of audio nightmares that calls the listener back again and again to discover more layers of sonic creepiness”
Rock a Rolla

“serious and overwhelming”[...] “a hostile environment of latent violence”
Trinta de Fevereiro

“Taking atmospheric, menacing ambience to heady new depths… to create an atmosphere which could enswathe the grimmest of David Lynch’s filmic output”
Boomkat

“As fitting a drama of nervous exploration and discovery, there is wonder and dread in equal measure here: Part dream, part nightmare, Pilgrim’s hypnotic call inevitably lures the listener into treacherous waters before plunging them into fatal depths”
Rough Trade

CONSOLATION

“A Fear filled symphony of terrors… that gradually entwines your imagination in its numerous sonic tentacles and refuses to relinquish its grip.”
Edwin Pouncey, The Wire

“…a dark delight full of Stygian soundscapes”
Mojo

“A master class in claustrophobic paranoia.”
BarCode Magazine

“Secures a place for Human Greed in the echelons of melancholic experimentalism”.
Absorb

“Requires the patience of a saint”
Kerrang!

“Disquieting as it is exceptional… Brutally honest, enlightening and remarkable”
Dark Star