“Operating at the highest level, MAGNOLIUS have crafted a quick-witted hip-hop experience that reveals just how far the genre has progressed in recent years. Sharing more in common with ‘Bitches Brew’ (Miles Davis) than ‘Straight Outta Compton’, ‘Ode To Hyde’ proves that rap can be every bit as creative as jazz. Evidence, then, that hip-hop has well and truly grown up.”
-RANT Magazine (UK)

"The chemistry between the duo, Shan Vincent de Paul & Derek DaCosta....well if you could bottle it, you could sell it back to N-Power and make some tidy wedge. It's angry and aware, yet sharp and has sense of humour" - Whispers Mag (UK)

“Imagine the best kind of unusual, electronically modified sounds mixed with a range of genres, all laced together with electric, dynamic emceeing. Now imagine tracks about struggles with the inner-self, human exploitation, poverty, and the physical violence one may resort to.”
-Soundproof

“The spirit of classic hip-hop lives, shaped into a modern-spectacle, a fierce powerful performance.” - Lonely Vagabond

Recently, MAGNOLIUS released their sophomore album entitled "Mary Musth" and are currently preparing to tour well into 2010.