“If you want to know the currently disturbed state of guitar than you have no more urgent duty than to spin the fiercely beautiful solo improvisations of Bill Horist…This is noise with feeling, strangely tender and completely mesmerizing.”

“Bill Horist pushes the limits of what an electric guitar can do”

“One of the busiest and most adventurous players in Seattle's underground-music scene, Bill Horist speaks a perplexing number of dialects with his guitar. His solo sets often feature him using an odd assortment of implements to alter the tunings of his instrument in order to make unprecedented sounds that redefine common notions of what's considered music”

“Bill's elastic guitar manipulations twist and squirm into the language of chaos. Unquestionably one of the most inventive guitar releases this listener has heard in quite some time. Recommended!”

“…gifted with both poetry and a welcome measure of quirkiness, that deserves the utmost attention; a ray of artistic purity rarely observable in a cloudily egocentric era.”

“Horist steers away from six string action painting, prefering to work through hypnotically swinging tracks of foghorn sonorities and deep electronic crackle.”

“Seattle’s Bill Horist has a range of extended techniques that is awe inspiring. In performance at the Stone in New York he turned in a perfect forty minute set that never flagged in inventiveness and musicality… a textbook of extended techniques employed in a highly personal, emotive way by a modern guitar master.”

“Bill Horist can easily hold his own playing the guitar conventionally…but he is best known for his more experimental excursions.”