“The story of Icon Eye is the story of the album “Icon Give Thank”: Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw) and musician/producer M. Geddes Gengras travel to Jamaica to work with legendary reggae outfit The Congos. Although from culturally and musically different worlds, the unlikely pairing produces an album rife with modern experimentation and rocksteady substance. But Icon Eye isn’t a typical making-of documentary; the minutiae that usually bog down films of its ilk are here replaced by a…more-vivid swatch of cultural observation. The film embraces its slow roll by bear-hugging the people of Jamaica, especially The Congos and the surrounding people, music, and landscape: a pipe full of ganja is inhaled, situations in the studio assessed, magic is made over the course of 10 days. Icon Eye isn’t about the resulting album; it’s about the attitude and lifestyle that inspired it. Picturesque scenes of Jamaican street life and well-trodden lessons from The Congos intermingle with melodic snippets, all edited into hallucinogenic magic.” — Jspicer, Tiny Mix Tapes

"Geddes Gengras and Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones jetted off to Jamaica to connect with the Congos, currently a four-member group whose 1977 album “Heart of the Congos” features some of the most paralyzing vocal harmonies ever captured by a microphone... Across the album’s eight tracks, they remove the dense bass lines that provide dub reggae’s sonic spine and nudge the singers’ voices into a cosmic slop of psychedelic electronics. The Congos croon like men on uneven footing. Because they are. This is freaky, fantastically formless music. But just because it’s weird doesn’t mean it isn’t sweet. We’ve got six very different musicians linking arms and bravely marching off into the unknown, here." Chris Richards, Washington Post