As we stand

"This is one of those records that doesn't shout its importance or try to be wilfully different. The sound is kept live and raw, the edges are kept in and the relish of four players' group experience is there on the surface ... As We Stand has that honest, enduring quality".

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"Not before time, Handsley gets to make her own-name debut on As We Stand. She leads a trio featuring Moses Boyd and Melt Yourself Down bassist Ruth Goller. It is a harp-led album with a difference, liberated from the instrument's soft-focus stereotype. Clue: a sleeve photo with attitude. Clue: the presence of Boyd and Goller, two musicians capable of ripping the nose clean off your face. But the album is no knuckle-scraping thrash either. It has delicacy and nuance to match its grit and sinew".

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"With As We Stand, Tori Handsley's debut leader date, the electric harpist, keyboardist and vocalist stares down the future with a hard-hitting trio every bit as committed to her vision as she is. As a major force on the U.K. scene, which frequently melds jazz with electronica and postrock soundscapes, Handsley's played with a host of notables, from Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia to Yussef Dayes and Evan Parker. But she really hits her stride with drummer Moses Boyd and bassist Ruth Goller, both longtime collaborators".

"One of a small, almost cultish cabal of jazz harpists playing their rarefied trade, Tori Handsley's first full-length cocks a snook at preconceptions. A thrilling three-way set with Melt Yourself Down bassist Ruth Goller and drum colossus Moses Boyd, from "Rivers Of Mind"'s opening bars it takes no prisoners, Handsley summoning a distorted raw power far removed from the relaxing glissandi of Alina Bzhzezhinska or Alice Coltrane ... There's traces of both EST and Mahavishnu Orchestra in grand finale "What's In A Tune", whose heady grooves and resounding riffs condense the best of what's gone before".