"Glorious ... like Bartók playing bluegrass" — Ted Gioia, { The Honest Broker }

"Absolutely brilliant … a work of enormous intensity. One is alert that every note counts here: patterns, progressions, contours in sound are communicated as readily as in any outstanding performance of say a Beethoven quartet." — Bernard Clarke, The Blue of the Night { RTÉ Lyric FM }

"With these spectacular string quartets, Luke Cissell has shown his immense skill as a composer and performer who can summon the dissonance of Bartók and the rich, harmonic depth of Schubert just as easily as he can the sounds of the Kentucky countryside." — Chris Ingalls, { PopMatters }