Strength Press:

Holy shit, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Strength live. No matter the venue—sweaty basement show, radio station benefit or drunken hipster club—the boys of Strength put on an incredible show that is unrivaled in this city. And for what really amounts to, umm, gay Euro-disco, the band's songs have mad hooks. The kind of hooks that get stuck in your head for days. The kind of hooks that make you lose your shit and flail your arms in the air, singing along to songs about pouring brandy on your lover and cruising in a non-cruising zone. Each and every word is sung from the Jagger-lite lips of frontman Bailey Winters without a hint of irony, and the band puts the equally jubilant sound of like-minded act U.S.E. to shame. So get off your ass and go dance this mess around. You won’t regret it.
Willamette Week- Michael Mannheimer

"I know it’s not cool to get to shows too early, but you’d shoot yourself in the foot by missing the shamelessly danceable sounds of Portland’s glitchy pop-disco trio Strength, who are still riding high from opening for Fujiya & Miyagi last week at hometown venue Doug Fir. Strength’s brand of grind-evoking “community disco” is an all-out throwback to the days of Casio-flavored blips, leg warmers, and track jackets, with a side of Bailey Winters’ seminasal declarations of late-night love. With all its bouncy, gender-bending madness, it’s the perfect soundtrack to your next basement dance party."
Seattle Weekly -Karla Starr

"The Portland trio Strength harnesses drum machines and keyboards to spit funky dance grooves. The band's debut album, Going Strong, constructs modern disco tracks with ample amounts of hip-shaking and finger-wagging flair. When Strength stops through Oakland on its West Coast tour, expect plenty of sweaty hand-clapping in neon jumpsuits."
East Bay Express- Kathleen Richards

"Strength is emblematic of this phenomenon that has turned many a show I've attended in recent months into sweaty piles of people in hot pink, fueled with the themes of ephemeral love and the fact that grinding has become okay again."
Portland Mercury- Jenna Roadman

"'You know that thrill of hearing a band for the first time in a small club, when you freak out about something that's new and you remember where you were when you heard a record for the first time? That's what I feel like sometimes when I'm doing Mission Creek stuff, particularly with this band, Strength, who I heard at a house party last year, and they were amazing,' says Hickey, who has been booking shows since she was a teenager."
San Francisco Chronicle- Megan Hickey, Mission Creek Music Festival

"Strength looked like an experiment in putting together a band made up exclusively from other band members' younger brothers; they played dance music like middle-period Bee Gees."
The Oregonian

"Strength guitarist Patrick Morris has a knack for the perfect funk riff—but not the kind that makes hippies flail. Rather, Strength is a completely legitimate disco band that, with the advantage of hindsight and improved technology, is able to elaborate on a sound that created a craze 30 years ago while avoiding most of the faux-pas of that era. Led by swaying, spinning, self-groping frontman Bailey Winters, this serious approach to shallow music makes for a fantastically fun, upbeat party."
Willamette Week- Jason Simms