"Armenian piano prodigy's urgent prog and spiritual investigation: A pianist since the age of three, Tigran Hamasyan balances his love for the sonorous melodies of Armenian folk music with a rapid-fire virtuosity derived from jazz and prog. Remarkable opener "Levitation 21" is a quick test of the listener's mettle, Hamasyan's piano and mournful vocal fired by stop-start drums and algebraic time signatures. Those who stick around are rewarded with an LP that confounds and stuns in equal measure, Hamasyan leading his band (...) through tracks like "The Dream Voyager" and "Old Maps" that, in their insistent complexity and entreaties to the divine, find their way to somewhere sublime"