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Exploded View–Car Stereo Review 3/95

“Ever wish you could take a ride on the Space Shuttle? Here’s the alternative: Pick up Steve Tibbetts’ The Fall of Us All instead. It’ll transport you to places in the cosmos you never knew existed.”

The Fall of Us All–The Sensible Sound

“The Fall of Us All is a stunning recording, a whirling devilish dervish of a disk that alternatively assaults and seduces listeners with electric and acoustic energy.”

The Fall of Us All–Pulse Magazine 7/94

“…his music screams with the brain-melt electric guitar overdubs and pounding percussion which dominate the first half of his latest album, The Fall of Us All.”

The Fall of Us All–Downbeat

“The Fall Of Us All ranks with his best and wildest work (alongside Yr and Exploded View), because it smoothly reconciles Tibbetts’ volatile mood swings with his developing interest in the music of Indonesia and Tibet.”

The Fall of Us All–Lawrence Journal World

“if you’ve grown weary of the Viennese confections underscoring large chunks of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001,” tune out the Strauss and plug in the Tibbetts, and ponder the monolith once again”

The Fall of Us All–Guitar Player, 7/94

“Veering from ambient dreamscapes to violent, post-industrial rave-ups, from spellbinding acoustic fretwork to apocalyptic electric fret burn, Tibbetts’ first album in five years is an emotional and sonic tour-de-force.”

Exploded View–Guitar Player, 3/87

“weaves through two sides, running the emotional gamut from serene to violent, always intense. This is truly unclassifiable, but then, it’s not searching for a compartment.”

Vision

1985 · Bob Hughes: bass; Marc Anderson: percussion; Steve Tibbetts: guitar and kalimba

Safe Journey–Musician Magazine 8/84

“there is a sobering purity about Tibbetts’ alien mix that shakes you up in some wondrous ways” -David Fricke

Safe Journey–Downbeat

“there is a sobering purity about Tibbetts’ alien mix that shakes you up in some wondrous ways.” -David Fricke, Musician Magazine