The critics and bloggers take on Your Name in Secret I Would Write

Metromix

"A quietly stunning masterwork."
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No Depression

"An inspiring and remarkable collection"
To read more, head over to No Depression (also posted at Uprooted Music Revue)

Leicester Bangs (UK)

"The sound they make is as pure and heartfelt as could be . . . I found it almost an honour to be involved as a listener."
To read more, see Leicester Bangs

babysue

"The more we hear Red Heart the Ticker the more impressed we are . . . these folks are creating out of true love and inspiration."
To read more, see babysue

Seven Days

"Red Heart approach their source material with equal parts reverence and ingenuity . . . Your Name is both rooted in the past and forward thinking."
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Das Klienicum

"Robin sings with a hidden bliss, with friendliness and kindness and gratitude."
Our apologies for the Google translation. For more (a solid familiarity of the German language may prove helpful)
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The Hippo

"Authenticity really doesn't come richer than this. A+"
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The critics & bloggers take on Oh My! Mountains Below

New York Times - May 2009

"Impressive"
For the rest of this concert preview, see the new york times

PopMatters - June 2009

"Stunning . . . natural, graceful, reflective, hopeful, honest, sure to be some of the best music of the year."
For the rest of this review, see PopMatters

Babysue/LMNOP - April 2009

"Lovely . . . magical and slightly peculiar."
For the rest of this review, see BabySue

The Philadelphia City Paper - June 2009

"Majestic highway serenades mix with surreal lullabies"
For the rest of this concert preview, see City Paper

Record Dept. - Oct 2009

"a gorgeous mix of ethereal Americana and folk"
For the rest of this review, see the Record Dept. site

Harried Potter - June 2009

"Superb . . . a quietly masterful example of inventive compositions, rich production and spot-on musicianship, wrapped like a blanket around disarmingly honest and engaging songs."

The Valley Advocate - June 2009

"rife with harmonies, hand-claps and homespun goodness"
For the rest of this concert preview, see The Valley Advocate

The Swill Merchant - June 2009

"some of the most beautiful sounding country folk that I have heard in quite awhile . . . I have been playing [Oh My! Mountains Below] into oblivion . . ."
For the rest of this review, see The Swill Merchant

Wonder and The Wooden Post - June 2009

"The new CD is a treat"
For the rest of this review, see Wonder and the Wooden Post

Dasklienicum - June 2009

"doch red heart the ticker sind nah dran, dass sie ihre schuhe in die tiefen fu?spuren ihrer ahnen einpassen k?nnen. unaufgeregt angemessen zelebrieren sie ihren stil aus folk und americana. und nutzen dabei gewissenhaft ein saumseliges band der harmonie, mit dem sie ihren longplayer ?berdecken"
For the rest of this review, see Dasklienicum
(Google's translation software reports: but red heart the ticker are close, their shoes that they can fit into the deep footprints of their ancestors. unexcited, they celebrate their appropriate style from folk and americana, using a non-obvious dilatory of harmony, with whom she tied her long player cover. Perhaps a German-English speaking human could better help us out . . .)

The critics and bloggers take on For the wicked

Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Track Review "Leather Boots"
***1/2 Stars
For a song about PDAs whose central image/hook is "You're naked/ 'Cept your leather boots", "Leather Boots" is surprisingly low-key, its desires contained and even reasonable. Tyler Gibbons-- the male half of Philadelphia-based Red Heart the Ticker-- sings not as the desired or even the desirer; he's not smooth-talking here, or whispering "motorcycle cop" in a lover's ear. Instead, he's a third-party witness to love's confounding spell, which manifests itself in the song's bold, almost over-the-top imagery: "your lover puts a quarter in the jukebox with the heart-shaped mellophone." Robyn MacArthur, the female half of Red Heart the Ticker, coos coyly in the background as the song builds from its folk-pop start to its indie-pop finish, complete with handclaps and synth squiggles, perhaps illustrating the transformative power of their subject matter.

Paste Magazine - March 2007

Exceptionally pretty folk songs from a Vermont barn

**** Stars

Husband-and-wife alt-folk duo Red Heart the Ticker boasts oodles of Americana cred - they recorded their self-released debut, For the Wicked, in a drafty, post-and-beam Vermont barn, and vocalist/guitarist Robin MacArthur's song-hunting grandmother, Margaret, recorded for Moe Asch's Folkways in the early 1960's - but their songs are less concerned with indie whims than snow angels and leather boots and gravestones and moonlight and drinking and riding around in a Trans Am. The pair's songs (reminiscent of both Gillian Welch and Will Oldham) are dim and haunting, full of winter melancholy, wispy melodies and plans for escape - on "One Last Tear" MacArthur coos, "I'm gonna wear my best boots, good for dancing, and take you where we used to go/Gonna drink corn liquor 'til the sun comes up/And walk on home real slow."