"The Ukrainian composer, one of the finest pianists in the world, made his name through his use of what he likes to call 'continuous piano music', an approach reliant on composition that lacks breaks. This is minimalism, then, taken to its absolute maximum ... "Corollaries", Melnyk's first album for Erased Tapes, was one of the most overlooked highlights of last year - it just didn't seem to garner quite the same attention from the label's listeners as better-known, younger composers like Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm ... Two of ["Evertina"'s] three tracks (...) were written and performed on upright piano. Separated from the grand variant of his instrument, Melnyk's playing seems attuned to the humbler, less forceful tone of the upright. Both these two pieces are delightful little soliloquies, lacking in some of the complexity Melnyk's playing often provides, thus making them more accessible than some of the tracks on Corollaries ... ["Butterfly"] is unbelievably pretty,withMelnyk managing to capture a childlike sense of wonder through its delightfully rippling current".