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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Chicago guitarist Eli Winter was engineered and mixed by Cooper Crain.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. Jul 7, 2025
    80
    With this new record, Winter’s fortitude is on full display. It feels unabridged yet restrained, folksy yet contemporary, busy yet bucolic – a matter of perspective, a trick of the light.
  2. Jul 7, 2025
    80
    It’s not jazz, not rock and certainly not Fahey-style picking, but vivid and exciting all the same.
  3. Jul 7, 2025
    80
    Eli Winter has been demonstrating for several years now that there’s more to him than it initially seemed (not that there were early complaints), and with Trick, he brings even more of his art into the light
  4. Uncut
    Jul 7, 2025
    70
    If his guitar reminds of anyone, it's David Grubbs - similar threads of notes that then tangle together into thickets - and Grubbs appears on this album, too. [Jun 2025, p.41]