Artlessly falling

"This remarkable album cannot be quantified, only experienced. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl are so mercurial in method and content - and mystifying in execution - they actually deserve their own genre".

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"The music is dramatic and can be a jarring listen. The players do connect. They contribute individually to make sounds together as part of a whole even as they simultaneously come off as disputatious and conflicting. It would not be a stretch to describe the album as cacophonous. Halvorson uses the various elements to aestheticize the confusing world around her. She may be falling, but that indeterminate state sure beats crashing".

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"Ultimately, Artlessly Falling is an acquired taste, a record where Halvorson paints intricate, sweeping soundscapes with challenging harmonies, deftly accompanied by Michael Formanek's resonant bass and drummer Tomas Fujiwara's textural rhythms. Yet, it's in the use of poetry where depth and difficulty lie. Here listeners are confronted with a mercurial mix of words, forms and music-combinations that gel as often as they resist each other".