“At once elegiac and celebratory, this deeply affecting collection is as fitting a valediction as any artist could hope for”. ★★★★ The Irish Times “Farewell To Music is an extremely poignant valedictory collection consisting exclusively of slow airs (13 of them), and straightaway gives the lie to anyone who says the accordion is incapable of sensitivity. The listener hangs on every note, and in every case the music fairly continues to resonate long after that note has died away. There’s no respite from the unrelieved slow, measured tempi – and nor does there need to be, for this is glorious, powerful playing that squeezes every drop of emotion from these ageless melodies; at the same time stark yet lush-textured, with an unerring precision and a beauteous, unparalleled sense of poise” David Kidman, The Living Tradition “Put it like this: “Farewell to Music” is like a superior bottle of whiskey. Complex, aged, and full of nuance, it’d be misguided and perhaps even crippling to drink it down too quickly. And while its depth hits you right away, given a bit of time it unfolds in a way that reveals its complexity in ways that aren’t apparent at first blush. This is an album that musicians will forever now turn to in order to better understand what air playing is. An instant classic”. Daniel Neely, The Irish Echo #10 on Jim Carroll’s (The Irish Times) 50 Best Albums of 2016