City Pages' Best New Band of 2009:

"A year before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs made all the music critics lose their shit over their new-old electro sound, locals Grant Cutler and Maggie Morrison began toying around with classic '80s synth beats and echoic vocal effects under their new project, Lookbook. The songs they produced, many of which were released late last year on their debut EP, I Fear You, My Darkness, speak to their mutual love of epic and deceptively simple electronica, pop melodies, and dark, brooding noise. Though neither of the members of Lookbook are new to the scene—Digitata fans will recognize Morrison as the mousy yet slyly sexy lead singer, while Cutler fronted punk band Passions—the two only started working together recently. In an era when many people are looking back to the '80s new wave and pop movements for cues on how to move forward in this vintage-happy new age, they couldn't have come together at a better time."

Maggie Morrison named Best Female Vocalist of 2010:

"The songs of electro duo Lookbook often glance to the digital past, but Maggie Morrison's pitch-perfect, brazenly unaffected singing instrument is perhaps their most well-selected keepsake from the glory days of the discotheque. Live or on record, Morrison never slumps, never slides, never half-asses a single note. Like an Annie Lennox sans buzz cut, Morrison has a voice that manages to be forcefully intimate, as if emanating from some phantom space between your ears, and unseeably remote. Something in Morrison's live delivery may account for this—she has as little use for meaningless mannerisms as she does for tremolo. As chillingly immaculate as a sine wave, Morrison and her voice have an inhuman perfection to them. Fortunately for her, and for us, Voight-Kampf tests are still a distant fiction. If she's a replicant, we won't raise a peep."

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