“King Ropes' fourth album carves out idiosyncratic intersections between rocky rock and rustic roots. After spending years in L.A. and Brooklyn, (Dave Hollier) returned (home), yearning to mingle vibrant urban energy with Montana’s vast rugged spaces. If Gram Parsons cast “cosmic country,” Hollier is cosmic rock-western; not Tex Ritter, more like spacy, discombobulated art rock and folk-pop. The most striking offerings, such as the slinky “Needles” or off-kilter “Big Man on TV,” combine whacked out, wide open atmospheres as vastly odd as his Mountain west. This concurrence of fragrant folk, chamber piano/violin beauty, americana, art-pop, and western limitlessness is as restless as the “The Last Best Place” itself.”
— Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover