"As Dragging an Ox through Water, Mumford has intuitively developed an utterly coherent, strangely intelligible, private musical language, and The Tropics of Phenomenon is its first fascinating vernacular novel." - Cary Clark, Portland Mercury "Layering gorgeous acoustic picking beneath sheets of white noise, gurgling, off-center electronics, and crackling tape hiss, they don't bury his endearing, heart-tugging melodies as much as they enhance them." - Willamette Week "early pop-country side of Arthur Russell covering Neutral Milk Hotel's In an Aeroplane Over the Sea with just a broken guitar, a dented tuba, a child's steel drum and a busted radio shack electronics kit," - Aquarius Records "Mumford is not merely a genius song crafter but cavernous sound engineer. These songs are mortally infused with an electronic pulse that propels them into a realm of ancient, mythical robotics." - Forest Gospel