"At all stages, it's very much a group record, rather than lead-and-rhythm. Hirvonen's too modest and generous a talent to strut in front of the music rather than serve it from within. If you know New Helsinki and Displace, the two pre-COVID records, this will feel like a big, but understated, step forward"

"Olli Hirvonen's Kielo is potent, straddling the borders of ether and earth with commanding resolve: instrumental post-rock at its most gripping"