"(Tin Hat Trio) is able to traverse a world of sound into a single disc... they conjure everything from Argentine tangos to Viennese waltzes to French café music with bits of country, blues, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and Eastern European folk music tossed in along the way. The Tin Hat Trio could become the poster band of a new folk-jazz fusion..." ~ Acoustic Guitar

"There's an element of sleight-of-hand in Tin Hat Trio's compositions. The acoustic chamber jazz trio's pieces may make you think of Astor Piazzolla one moment, Gypsy jazz the next, but then they throw in Delta blues, bluegrass, classical music - any number of styles - and it all sounds exactly right... Helium is breathtaking: adventurous, accessible, sexy, creepy, comic and haunting..." ~ Pacific Sun

"Genre is a loose but logical issue for guitarist Mark Orton, accordionist Rob Burger, and violinist Carla Kihlstedt, who stir up folk, jazz, Euro-kitsch, and sonic tinkering into a fresh and poetic stew on their second album... The real charm of this big little enterprise stems from the way it cooks up drama, irony, and fragile warmth, sans words. A-" ~ Entertainment Weekly