"...like looking at a series of stop motion photographs or a poster depicting anthropological evolution; "...Learns To Knit" gets better, fuller, more self–assured and more refined as it goes and by the time “Dandelion Souls†and “Age Old Recipe†roll around to close out the album, the singer has finished his diagram of a stitch in time beautifully."
- Bill Adams, Echo Weekly
"...on his debut album, . . . Learns to Knit, Trothen proves himself a talented and off-kilter songwriter whose songs deserve repeated listens and perhaps some psychoanalysis."
-Colin Hunter, The Record
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