“It's a busy, dazzling record.” Spin “Isn't so much a leftfield perversion of HipHop as it is a restoration of the genre to its avant garde roots.” The Wire “Even if it doesn't always work, this is as imaginative an approach to hip hop production as the underground has ever generated.” Vibe “Sounds like a malfunctioning iPod loaded with The Neptunes, Aphex Twin circa Windowlicker and The Last Poets--only with all the fragments miraculously falling in just the right places.” Q Magazine “Still more for headphones than headspins, but offering plenty for the heads.” Urb “The rhythms have grown more techy and layered, wilding with drill-happy 16ths (on "Busy Signal," he and L.A.'s like-minded Daedalus cut up a human beatbox then go machine-gunning with piano notes), or throbbing and crackling out of an electronic ether (the radio-transmission lurch of "Detchibe") as though he's been studying glitchy Europeans.” Village Voice “There's nothing Herren can't and won't do on this record.” Junkmedia “One Word Extinguisher shows a range of emotional grappling usually foreign to instrumental hip-hop.” Pitchfork “A set of electronica that's nearly as challenging as Autechre's relentlessly academic beat manipulation but just as funky and instantly gratifying as a Fatboy Slim flag-waver. ” All Music Guide “This record is a wonderful accomplishment - instead of relying on tricks and methods explored on earlier records, Herren expands via reflection, tracing sounds back to their roots in hopes of finding a new path.” Dusted Magazine “Herren takes what amounts to a series of completely artificial electronic noises and whips them into one of the most soulful, funky, relentlessly compelling albums since the Neptunes' last outing.” Splendid “An endlessly fascinating maze of sound.... This decade's Endtroducing..” Uncut “Perhaps the greatest expansion in Herren's sound is the range of emotion conveyed in One Word Extinguisher.” Stylus Magazine “Playfulness ultimately wins over arty schlock. ” Magnet “The season's most deliriously funky beats. ” Mojo “Unlikely to be defined by any passing scene, Herren seems likely to go his merry way in the way production auteurs do, body-swerving ham-fisted attempts at pigeon-holing or categorisation.” Playlouder “This is meticulously constructed and flawlessly engineered music.” PopMatters “Original, brilliant and so avant-garde that less than one percent of the population will be able to sit through it.” Alternative Press “ One Word Extinguisher doesn't shock the way Vocal Studies... did but, if his debut drew the vivid hip-hop/electronic blueprint, Herren convincingly takes his plans and constructs something big with the follow-up.” Neumu.net