"Nobody sounds like her."

—Nate Chinen, NPR Music

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"...always surprising and iconoclastic..."

—qobuz Magazine

 

"...a truly original musician, bandleader, and composer—a master in a style of her own invention."

—Fred Kaplan, Slate

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"Mary Halvorson refuses to be defined, let alone confined."

—A.D. Amarosi, DownBeat

 

“You hear Mary Halvorson play a guitar once—it sticks with you.”
—Reed Jackson, SPIN

 

"If Halvorson is the future of jazz, we are in tremendously gifted hands."

—Chris Ingalls, PopMatters

 

"The results are as intricately layered as they are restlessly inventive, affirming Halvorson’s entry into the ranks of the foremost orchestrators in contemporary jazz… further evidence of her command over a musical language that continues to evolve.”
—John Sharpe, NYC Jazz Record

 

"However edgy and angular Mary Halvorson’s music gets, powerful melodies and inviting harmonies always drift below even the stormiest surface, giving the much-lauded New York composer and guitarist an appeal way beyond the avant garde."

—John Fordham, The Guardian

 

"The set hums with the sonic spectres of a myriad of different musical styles all fed through the mixer of Halvorson’s singular artistic vision. The result is deeply compelling and will have listeners coming back time and again to uncover more in these thrilling pieces."

—Andrew Taylor-Dawson, The Quietus

 

“We need more work like this. And, it bears mentioning again, what a remarkably strange and cool voice on guitar she has.”
—Langdon Hickman, Treble