"Mustard Gas & Roses is the side project of Mike Gallagher, who is probably better known for his work with Isis, those fine purveyors of dirge. Despite the somewhat harsh title (a reference to a line from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five), MGR is about as far away from Gallagher's other band as one could possibly be. Instead, Nova Lux is an exploration of very subtle changes in quiet, but darkly ominous sound."