They were an unlikely pair - unlikely to succeed, unlikely to survive. Martin Rev was a formally-trained keyboard player who studied under the legendary bebop pianist Lennie Tristano. Alan Vega, of Polish and Spanish descent, was an avant-garde sculptor who attacked his art with the same vigour that he saw in the aggro-sexual stage rites of Elvis Presley and Iggy Stooge. Together, as Suicide, they made a joyless noise so relentlessly brutal in it's crude electronic throb, so abrasively savage in it's vocal primitivism, that it was widely assumed that some day Rev and Vega would fall back into the gaping hole in pop sauce from when they'd crawled...

David Fricke, Melody Maker, November 1986