Tin Hat Trio The Sad Machinery of Spring

4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] scraped strings, prepared pianos, creaking pump organs....[They] inject a very cinematic sense of terror..."
"Allusions to the fractures and dispersive language of modernist composition are incorporated within adaptations of the communal sound of Eastern European and Jewish folk traditions."
4 stars out of 5 -- "Throughout its most breadth-taking album so far, Tin Hat sustains its spirit of chamber Gypsyism while creating an array of fractured, luminescent melodies."
"With all five players writing, the end result still sounds cohesive, at a point where chamber music, free-jazz adventure and silent-movie soundtracks meet."
4 stars out of 5 -- "15 mostly instrumental vignettes, fused seamlessly together into an absorbing multi-textured sonic tapestry."