"I don’t think there was an album I listened to more in 2025 than Perseverance Flow—particularly notable since it only came out in October!—at once a powerful distillation of the Natural Information Society sound and psychedelic expansion of it. I heard the core quartet play this piece in Chicago in 2023, where I got to witness how Joshua Abrams, Mikel Patick Avery, Jason Stein, and Lisa Alvarado had unequivocally developed the long-running ensemble’s aesthetic principles into a fat-free concentrate of slow-build hypnosis. When I heard the piece live I could trace its incremental drive, with Avery building up the groove on element at a time, but after recording the music Abrams went into the studio and treated the performance with dub-like dislocations, adding an endless strand of variations from each instrumentalist to accentuate the steady ascension with thrilling fillips, distortions, displacements, and accents. This album might be pleasant enough as a casual listen, but what a waste to engage on a superficial level. Digging into the details has proven endlessly rewarding, and it’s opened up a seemingly infinite range of possibilities in the future. A masterpiece." Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street