"Your pleasure senses are aroused and you come back again and again wanting more, all the while getting deeper into the music that is free from the superficial gloss of virtuosity without meaning, but replete with the subtlety and grace that aspires to something more profound. Sheppard, ever the careful listener, understands this music, his trajectory in perfect alignment with a trio that speaks with one voice"

"Norway's Espen Eriksen Trio is the first Scandinavian piano trio to enjoy a measure of sustained international success since Sweden's Esbjorn Svensson's high-profile run was cut short by Svensson's death in 2008. While some listeners thought that EST's style was becoming over-codifed during its final years, EET still sounds box fresh thirteen years and many thousands of road miles since its debut album, You Had Me At Goodbye ... As Good As It Gets is, near as damn it, precisely that"