The authors of the
Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album four stars, stating that it "documents a group with formidable powers," and commenting: "Schweizer is very much the key element, assembling and unpicking a series of small-scale themes and ideas like some intellectual
tricoteuse. Maggie Nicols' ability to break down narrative song into its constituent elements, semantic nonsense, and still leave you feeling that you've heard a story and been serenaded as well continues to amaze, as does George Lewis's ability to make even a disassembled trombone sound like the most musical thing on the planet... Sommer is not so much a minimalist as a miniaturist, able to invest tiny ideas with enormous significance... Léandre rumbles away in the background... this represents a wonderful documentation of an important group." ==Track listing==