“For all his power, he dazzles with the lightness of his touch… “Speak to Me,” Lage’s tuneful new album on Blue Note finds him in his most inviting mode.”
- The New York Times
“The American guitarist’s sparse, largely acoustic companion piece to last year’s acclaimed View With a Room is another captivating creation”
- The Guardian
“A kaleidoscope of twangy textures, bendy shimmers, muted strings and speedy ice-cool lines.””
- Financial Times
“An adventurous, exploratory jazz guitar album.”
- No Depression
“…blends old & new jazz styles with a kind of sun-dappled Americana”
- New York Times
“A virtuosic swirl of twangy textures and gritty grooves”
- DownBeat
“This album maintains a sense of warmth that conveys the personal nature of Lage’s playing”
- The Stanford Daily
“Each song is delivered personally to the listener, like a letter.”
- The New Yorker
“…so extravagant and capacious that they bring flourishes to this music that it simply hasn’t enjoyed before”
- The New Yorker