Roomful of Teeth

Its a great way to escape from the traditional style of music and allows you to see a new kind of music that ive never heard!! I love it and its fun and new!

The most groundbreaking vocal album I've heard ina long long long time. Thrilling, experimental, but at the same time really emotional. A must have for fans of new (or just plain good) music.

Meredith Monk called, she wants her Pulitzer back.

Such incredible musicianship. These people really know the rules, that they're breaking, and are so creative in their shattering of existing paradigms. Their exploration of the frontiers of music is fascinating and beautiful. Can't wait for another album!

But Caroline Shaw just won the Pulitzer prize for her works on this album. PULITZER PRIZE.

I really love this album. The vocal production is astounding, the cohesion and direction is tight, and the sound is so clean. I find this kind of soundscape, which stretches traditional vocal categories, to be extremely powerful and dramatic, and there is overtone work that blows me away. For me, it's not hyperbole to say that I find this album more exciting than the Chanticleer, and I hope to bring RoT to my campus on their upcoming tour. The negatives are tiny for me. As a tenor, I wish the men took a little more of the spotlight. The exposed voicing leads to a couple of moments when the high voices don't start perfectly together. Most of the pieces are accessible to me as a listener, but I don't feel like I have enough information to really understand Amid the Minotaurs as a composition, though it contains some great moments. I've worked with the director, Brad Wells, before, and it's really inspiring to see what he is doing with this concentration of talent.

I know music. This is not music. Or even what is "new" music. Experimental is great. I'm not sure what this is and I am trying to be polite. Really bad Philip Glass? Please don't waste your money.

The album redefines classical music of the 21st century. The bar has certainly been set a few notches higher. Each song sends the listener on a wild journey around the globe, glimpsing a new cultural imagination in every measure. This is certainly not to say the album is chaotic and without direction. In fact, the flow of every song is part of what makes this composition astounding. The work's true beauty is unmasked by the robust harmonies and use of dissonance. Had I not known better, I would have thought this was a choir of over fifty singers. Don't stop making art.