[1] DownBeat magazine critic Peter Margasak said they are "a scrappy improvising trio" who deftly revisit many of Frith's musical endeavors in "a gritty, unified attack".
Frith was a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, and from 1999 has been teaching musical improvisation at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Frith explained that he found himself drawing on his "earliest rock and roll experiences", and with Hoopes' "stunning ability to wring every-thing [sic] there is to be wrung out of an electric bass" and Glenn's "playful, irreverent, and absolute authority ... [a]nything can happen.
It was also generally well received, with Karl Lippegaus for the German radio station WDR 3 describing it as a tangle of "complex soundscapes",[16] and DownBeat magazine music critic Peter Margasak writing that melodies surface occasionally, but the trio focuses on "exploring the nexus of groove and mood" without remaining in one place for too long.
In a review of Road in the British monthly, Jazzwise, Daniel Spicer wrote: "It’s rare indeed that improvised music is simultaneously as accessible and cerebral as this.