“...City Noise is a highly personal and hyper-local collaborative album that features many local guests including Kingston’s Cantabile Children’s Choir and Governor general award winning poet laureate Sadiqa de Meijer. The Gertrudes continue to share stories about families and friends in their beloved Skeleton Park neighbourhood.”  
— Greg Tilson, band leader

“...an ode to artists who make Katarokwi-Kingston the centre of their world and believe deeply in translating our sense of place into art, whether in clear namings or almost incidental allusions to a certain kind of light. There is a vitality to communities that are in that kind of conversation with themselves.”
— Sadiqa de Meijer, Kingston poet laureate