"On Diabolique, Newcombe joins forces with actor/singer Emmanuelle Seigner and French husband and wife garage rockers The Limiñanas, that's multi-instrumentalist Lionel and drummer Marie, as L'Epee to present a hazy mash of "Venus in Furs" Velvet Underground, late 1960s sitar psychedelia and Gallic garage ... L'Epee has produced an album greater than the sum of its myriad of great parts. If Seigner is front and center, Newcombe and the Limiñanas provide her with a filigreed setting. Diabolique is a trip into the underworld from which you will return revitalized and ready for the next leg"