"The British trio Barrel has created a set that is revolutionary, funny and breathtakingly audacious. To the uninitiated, this trio of string virtuosos might sound like musical terrorists. However, it is much more than merely a group of shock artists. Genuine creativity and musical innovation is at the heart of the music on this album; as is extreme humour that takes its cue from Dadaism. In fact it is as if the trio has swallowed the great painter Salvador Dali whole and regurgitated him here with chilling accuracy, rendering his melted imagery with its own sense of musical liquefaction" Raul de Gama Rose

"Decades of instrumental practice along and against the tradition blended inside an intermutual jargon that takes something from the classic and the absurd in equal doses. Heterogeneous composites causing inflammatory euphoria." Massimo Ricci

" The sheer strangeness of it all is astonishing, it resembles a groaning wooden ship floundering against cellophane rocks in a choppy sea of sighing taut wires, officers bellowing wordless commands from the bridge, gusts of wind fluttering its tattered sails. Catch them live if you can, a performance earlier this year at Boat-Ting was, for me, one of the live highlights of 2013 so far, an awesome display of improvisation every bit matched by this fantastic album" Ears for Eyes Blogspot

"Barrel sound unlike anything else. Flurries of notes and clunky bridge nudge noise flutter around gracefully drunken descends, three dowager duchesses sliding down the banister in a rain of ripped confetti." - Stewart Lee