“While his new release is Rolin’s most fully-realized work to date, it maintains his raw first-take energy and unassuming home-recorded production…”

- Pitchfork

“Rolin's deft hands on his instrument display an assured sense of composition, and a bright present for the state of guitar soli…”

- NPR Music

“...it’s one thing to find both improvised music and roots-derived acoustic-guitar instrumentals in the same shopping cart, and another thing to make the approaches work together…” 

- Magnet Magazine Essential New Music

“While Rolin’s gifts for texture and atmosphere are on full display, so are his abilities with melody and composition…”

- Aquarium Drunkard

“…with guitar strums that lap like water on a lake shore, steady, unchanging and completely without violence.”

- Dusted

“…Based on a gentle, spiraling strum from Rolin, Gerycz’s bells and cymbal wash and Powers’s dreamy zither-like playing turn “Activator” into some kind of rustbelt new age masterpiece. “Activator” anneals, like metallurgy, heating and changing shape and growing ever purer and more refined…”

- Aquarium Drunkard