"As we step into the new year, we invite you to explore FAULT’s Artists to Watch list for 2025. These rising stars are poised to make waves, ensuring that the gift of music keeps on giving…...By far the loudest and most shocking queer-and-here artist out there, Klovis Gaynor blazes a path very few have dared and does so with utmost confidence and temerity, taking even traumatic personal experiences and turning them into full-blown rock anthems...."

"Klovis Gaynor’s “BABY PINK SPLIFFS” is chock-full of surprises and subversion. And there is so much put into it that even on repeated listens, you’re bound to find things that had escaped you before, and what this means, of course, is that everyone involved was bringing their A-game to recording every single time, delivering something that is first and foremost MEMORABLE, perhaps the most unapologetic group of songs that you’ll ever listen to in your life."

"...Klovis paints these sexual encounters as being therapeutic. He adds, “Something special about Sniffies in the summer / Something special about a map of local dick and hole pics.”  He’s brutally honest, isn’t he? Ah, the openness of sex positivity.  Besides the bold, colorful lyrics, the musical accompaniment is also colorful – picturesque...."

"...let’s just say if your fire’s not fully stoked by Klovis & Co’s heady mix of religion and eroticism and pleas to give Jesus head well you’re made of stronger stuff than us…

…sonically the song’s a sumptuous feast for the ears so unbridled in its passion that it’s on the verge of being obscene even before you take in the lyrics with florid pianistic flourishes supplied by none other than bandleader Klovis Gaynor themselves as supported by his merry band of urinal cakes—a worthy epithet for a collective whose playing can be hard and heavy as a deodorizing hockey puck one moment, soft and squishy as a pink spongy sea anemone that’s been peed on repeatedly at another"

"Klovis Gaynor & The Urinal Cakes are an incredibly queer quintet coming out of NY. The vibe is one part smoky piano bar, one part glam rock, a dash of cabaret, and a sprinkle of punk sensibilities. Klovis' voice reminds me at times of a sultry Tim Curry, and at other times like a wailing John Nolan. Lush strings and gentle piano arrangements sound like something that could have been written for the debut ANOHNI "Antony and The Johnsons" LP. There's a delicious, although too brief, fuzzy glammed out guitar solo that I just adore. Above it all, lyrics like "god turned me on / that fag made me gay" or "lord come and fuck me / lord rail me hard" ring out with earnestness. Can't wait to hear what the impending album sounds like!"

"In five tracks, Klovis creates a near-theatrical experience, confronting the taboo subjects that deeply impact the Queer community—a community facing ignorance, judgment, and the shadow of censorship."

"Klovis’ mastery of piano ushers listeners through this range of emotions— at times the keys are choppy, bright, and rhythmic; at others they are smooth and tender alongside an accompanying cello. The lyrics and sonics together grab the gentle and the callous for one big, cathartic hug."

"...that was Sniffies In The Summer by Klovis Gaynor..."