Joops gave a score of 7.37 / 10. Comments were:
Quasitone offers many tones in this multi-genre, multi-instrument, multi-progression offering of its multi-worded The Smoldering Fires of Constant Persuasion. Kicking it off with jangley rock, the band forges its way through pop-rock licks, jazz fusion transitions, a Spanish nylon guitar break, to guitar shred-tapping and dual leads, and ambient noise underlyings. Thats a lot for one song. Quasitone pulls it off for the most part. The song remains inside of its family tree, but some cousins are uglier than others. For a straight up rock instrumental fan (Satriani, Vai, even Turing Machine) this may be a bit too much for you. If you like your fusions to do what they do and fuse together many aspects, TSFOCP may be just your thing. Radio play? Not likely on a wide scale, more for a specialized college show or satellite channel. Quasitone are strong competent players with quality production to showcase their chops. The persuading aspect of TSFOCP come down to if fusion rock lights your fire. If, so this track will smolder in your earphones.

Scoring: Songcraft: 8, Recording: 8.5, Freshness: 6, XFactor: 7

                                                               

Mr. Lexicon gave a score of 2.5 / 10. Comments were:
The Smoldering Fires of Constant Persuasion is just not very good. The drums sound is like Phil Collins is giving a workshop on vintage 80s drum rolls with too much reverb. The rhythm guitar track is sharp, hissy and annoying. There is just nothing inspiring or great about this song at all. This instrumental track that seems lost in the 80s.

Scoring: Songcraft: 2, Recording: 5.5, Freshness: 0.5, XFactor: 2

                                                            

PFTW gave a score of 4.87 / 10. Comments were:
Well, I thought I had tripped upon a new Rush track with the kind of drumming I was treated to on this track. Impressive! Too bad the drums seem about 100 miles away. Actually, the entire band does you guys need to learn how to use level meters and compressors. There is some great playing on this track, I especially love the classical guitar, there is some masterful work there, EXCELLENT! The production on this track needs to be brought up significantly in order to match the skill level of the performance. I personally don't like instrumentals much, it's like painting without colour, sure the end result is valid, but I can't relate, and unless you're a RUSH fan, you won't either. BTW, a rating for musicianship would have brought your score up significantly.

Scoring: Songcraft: 6, Recording: 5, Freshness: 4.5, XFactor: 4

                                                         

Commander Yo gave a score of 8.37 / 10. Comments were:
Here it is! Here it is! This is a must, I mean, A MUST listen too. Quasitone just freakin brings it with this tune. They weave so many different influences, Rush, Al DeMeola, Alan Holdsworth, Dixie Dregs, all of those late 70s jazz fusion Guitar God icons. Quality production, great drumming, great guitar work and not a synth in site too. To throw in some negatives, just to be honest you know, Quasitone seems to steal a little bit of stuff from other artists so what is the Quasitone sound? Also the cord changes are made for the ease of soloing, in the masturbatory sense, and can sound a little repetitive. The end needs a little more work too bring back the melody or something, but hey I am just babbling. Great effort guys!

Scoring: Songcraft: 8, Recording: 8.5, Freshness: 8, Musicianship: 9, XFactor: 9

                                                            

Dr. Strangelove gave a score of 5.25 / 10. Comments were:
Quasitone, tell me, did the band consider the plight of the innocent listener whose room mate has just entered the room and asked the question "Dude, what are you listening to?"? Did you imagine the confused look when the answer was 'The Smouldering Fires of Constant Persuasion'? "Right you are, good luck with that". This rock instrumental is well recorded and you can tell that Quasitone have some good ideas and a fair bit of experience too. For me this is a take it or leave it kind of song. It's not good enough to make me want to come back again and it's not bad enough to warrant any real criticism. Luke warm.

Scoring: Songcraft: 5, Recording: 6.5, Freshness: 4.5, Musicianship: 6, XFactor: 5