"Bowles has the power to transform the sound of a banjo–and folk music–into something transcendental...something boundless and new" – Pitchfork

"Like Coltrane, Bowles tears open a tiny piece of fabric in the folk music continuum to let in the cosmic debris" – NPR Music

"Fluidly melodic digressions and pungent dissonances generate a forward momentum and haunted atmosphere" – The Wire ... more