Jazz Times
"Radio Silence...music that only increases in appeal upon repeated listens."
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DOWNBEAT Magazine
"wonderfully percussive and powerful...a great, creative piano trio that makes you bob your head and smile."
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All About Jazz
"Neil Cowley Trio works within a mode that harmoniously turns the tide on convention."
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Jazz Junkie
"Neil Cowley Trio creates beautiful themes using their own vision"
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All About Jazz
"in the safe nostalgia of the twentieth century...Neil Cowley Trio continue to forge ahead into more challenging territory"
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Mainly Piano
"Radio Silence is a fascinating listening experience...music for the heart and feet"
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Audiophile Audition
"This is music with a hipster sophistication and new millennium accessibility"
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Downbeat Magazine
"a great, creative piano trio that makes you bob your head and smile"
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Critical Jazz
"Lush all most cinematic melodies that suddenly transform into bursts of controlled sonic fury"
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HiFi News
“precision and breath-catching dynamic contrasts, all of which are captured stunningly on this recording”
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Commercial Break
"this is Cowley's reply to his critics. Perhaps Radio Silence will finally silence them"
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Limelight, Australia
"Cowleys intense, rythmic and richly decorated music is matched by the aggressive immediacy of his cohorts"
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Time Out
"Cowley gives the modern piano trio a distinctly English spin with danceable and daring results."
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Altsounds.com
"a talent which without effort links both the accessibility of "Stereoface" to more improvised tones of "Gerald".
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thesilentballet.com
"Elegant and poetic..just damn beautiful."
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Elsewhere NZ
"real skills and exciting angularity"
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Bluesanssoul.com
"So summing up this talented threesome, I urge you to forget Viagra just get some NCT in your veins you'll soon be running around like a spring lamb. They are an inspirational spark that just continues to fly upwards bravo!"
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Les Inrockuptibles
"L'equation est simple: formation a la musique classique + jazz + culture pop anglaise = Neil Cowley Trio!"
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juslikemusic.com
"The Neil Cowley Trio continue to expand on the sub-genre of contemporary piano-trio jazz, with their high energy performances and beautifully crafted songs. The new album, Radio Silence, is a brilliant collection of nine songs, so give it a listen"
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Timesonline.co.uk
"nothing short of inspired...wonderfully refreshing...irresistible"
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Jazzwise
"Beautiful... elegiac, meditive even.. a band that seems to have found its voice... the sound of a band maturing fast, and in the process taking more chances. .. This is Cowley's best yet"
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The Word
"these tracks function like mad silent - movie accompaniments that lie just on the right side of chaos."
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Shout4Music.com
"Cowley produces genuinely exciting music compactly arranged into tight song structures."
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subba-cultcha.com
"The album is full of these harmonic diversions that are, great...trail-blazing"
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Manchester Evening News
"by turns explosive, exploratory and eccentric - and sounds much more modern than mouldy old modern jazz"
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heraldscotland.com
"like the late Esbjorn Svensson, he has a talent for tender, deceptively simple melodies"
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thelineofbestfit.com
"wonderfully fluid....emblematic of the best quality of Neil Cowley Trio"
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basic-Soul.co.uk
"sit back and enjoy listening to a trio that is clearly having fun here stretching songs in areas they haven't been before"
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The Scotsman
'Cowley has staked his own claim to a slot in contemporary jazz'
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The Sunday Post
"a great mix of meandering, gentle, lyrical phrases with the occasional virtuoso sprint"
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Sunday Mercury
'Packs a punch'
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BBC Music
"it’s the playfulness bursting from the piano ace’s fingers that should capture the imagination here – and prove he’s not scared of getting fresh".
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The Times
"Little wonder that he got invited to both Glastonbury and Ronnie Scott's...typically mesmerising"
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Entertainment-focus.com
'This album is full of jazz piano offerings that showcase Cowley's talents on the piano. Whether its jazz meanderings like A French Lesson, or the sprawling Vice Skating with Cowley showing his flair traversing up and down the piano....'
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The Independant
'lyrical,angular and seismic'
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The Guardian
"...a complex and subtle album...Cowley is refining his skills as a composer of striking motifs"
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Cigna Sight And Sound
"Enthralling, heart-warming and gripping as the very best in contemporary music...this restless drive pushes the Neil Cowley Trio towards greatness"
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The Jazz Mann
"An important step in the development of the trio. It's a more nuanced record with greater emotional depth than either of its predecessors and heralds a greater maturity in Cowley's writing style"
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Blues & Soul
"These boys are the masters of dynamics and the trio gel as one...breathtaking!"
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Music OMH
"As the saying goes, many a good thing comes in threes and Neil Cowley's trio is a prime example"
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The Independent
"Pianism in the grand manner, catchy hooks and floaty ballads"
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Leeds Music Scene
"The production is floorless, and the performance as tight as your landlord's wallet...a continuation of the type of fusion that is driving jazz forwards"
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Contact Music
“The minimal, delicate percussion treatments and swirling piano laden tracks are accomplished”
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BBC Music Magazine
"The elegance of Brad Mehldau and the intensity of Nirvana"
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Bearded
"Their most complete and eloquent statement yet"
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Vanguard
"Whatever your prejudices about jazz, this is a bit special."
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Jazz UK
"Cowley’s Radio Silence increases the dynamic contrasts, classical delicacies and tone-poetic moods of his work without sacrificing the grooving that has bought him many fans outside jazz."
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The Telegraph
"Cowley is a true heir to the English romantic strain of musicians...wonderful"
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Tasty Fanzine
"They are very technically good, all three instruments have very clever parts to play, and all played with flare...it's a good mix"
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Mojo
"Bittersweet...intricate...a big step forward"
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Red Hot Velvet
"Neil and the gang combine crashing crescendos with romantic melodies that even the biggest Jazz novice can sink their teeth into"
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Die Shell Suit Die
"Talented"
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Properganda Blog
"If an album is simply a snapshot of a work in progress, then this is a perfect portrait"
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All Gigs
"Jazz may well be the genre, but this is music that lolls about in your head and gives you a different aural taste every time"
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Shakenstir
"An album that would fit comfortably in anyone's record collection...an emotional but exciting rollercoaster of a journey"
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The Record Collector
"EST on steroids with the attitude of Motorhead"
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