"Sierra Hull is a mandolin vituoso and former chil prodigy who signed to Rounder Records when she was just thirteen-years-old. This, her first new album in five years, is produced by Béla Fleck and features harmony vocals from Rhiannon Giddens, Alison Krauss and Abigail Washburn ... One might well be anticipating an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink extravaganza of an album. This is something very different and very much better than that. "Weighted Mind" is a sparsely accompanied record. Fleck supplies banjo on "Queen Of Heart/Royal Tea" and "Black River" but otherwise the instrumentation consists of Hull's own mandolin and octave mandolin, supported throughout by the supple bass playing of Ethan Jodziewicz. Lyrically (...) it's intensely personal. Hull has clearly exorcised some demons in those five silent years, producing a body of unflinchingly plain-spoken songs in the process".