"The true mind bender of the record is "Amen Family", its fret-tapping and string scraping reinventing the venerable amen break as an electrified freak-folk/jungle opus for fingerstyle guitar that has to be heard to be believed. Ultimately, Thank You Guitar is a giant step forward in Palilalia's redefinition of the solo guitar record, and one of the first truly novel things I've heard a guitar spit out in quite some time"

"Extremely stoked to see that Bill Orcutt is releasing a new Cyrus Pireh record on his Palilalia label. I discovered Pireh’s "transcendental shred electric guitar music" via his 2022 LP VISITOR. The music contained on that album was so unlike all other guitar music I’d ever heard and I sort of believed it was a once-in-a-lifetime feat that couldn’t be repeated. Thankfully Pireh returns with more extraordinary explorations for speed, strings and distortion on a label operated by someone who knows a thing or two about expanding the guitar’s vocabulary."

"Finally the lead track from Cyrus Pireh's Visitor is the best bit of solo guitar-ing anyone has released in the last 40 years and the fact that apparently only I know this is proof we do not live in a rational universe."

"Described as 'transcendental shred,' Pireh's solo guitar is above all emotional - the opening track in particular is a blast of pure, twitchy joy."

"Can't remember the last piece of (non-live) music I've listened to as compulsively (multiple times a day) as this. Astounding not only in its technicality and mystery but in a simple melodic sense, too. Perfect music this."

"It takes something special to make such a unique solo guitar record in 2022, but Cyrus Pireh keeps things close and quiet on Still Here, Still Ripping and does just that (with an assist from Will Hicks). Across four songs, Pireh is on a journey to explore the possibilities of electric guitar and make connections, real and imagined, along the path. The 12-minute Message of Universal Solidarity simmers for days, Pireh's fingerpicking popping bubbles that come back stronger each time. Hicks lights the torch in the last three minutes, his synth and drums giving a platform to lift off. Elsewhere, Pireh looks inward through disrupted resonance and finds beauty in the smallest moments, appreciations after nearly dying that sing a little louder and glow a little brighter, inviting all the moths around to bathe in this cosmic light."

"Cyrus Pireh used to swing his axe around the Twin Cities, so we were sure to scoop up the new cassette on Astral Editions the very moment it manifested. The title track "Still Here, Still Ripping" is a brief but crystal window into the workman's woodshed, covering more ground in three minutes than some careers touch full sprawl. A clawfoot jackhammer, well strapped on. With this new album, Pireh has offered an inspired vision of obtuse angles, filmed in widescreen acous-matic splat mode. Ripping indeed, thank you sir!"