ULA's King Wenclas has posted on the silver jews message board that berman's music sounds like "watered-down velvet underground." Wenclas also claims that an essay he wrote in the mid-90s about detriot "with its strongest (most 'polemical') parts cut out [] still blows Berman's entire ouevre out of the water, not to mention every lame issue of Open City."

see the debate for yourself.