“Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward.” The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

“This band is like the mirror image of Godspeed You Black Emperor!; things evolve more slowly and melodically, and they open onto themselves. This is music constructed with the same sense of dynamic and attention to detail but it is so stunningly, heartbreakingly beautiful in its unfolding that for it to reach any other conclusion than to fall apart or disintegrate at the end of each piece would be to violate it somehow. As it is, the music on Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward is devastating in its beauty and ghostly in its articulation. We can only wonder what spirits came from the ether to inform this vision, and be glad they did.” - Thom Jurek, AllMusic