Jon Lloyd's new quartet, sans the pianistic invention of John Law,  is an earful to behold. Gone are the strange punch-drunk duels between the two, and that's not because Lloyd  wanted to make his own voice predominant -- far from it, by adding an entirely new lineup save for Marcio Mattos,  with Stan Adler on cello and  Paul Clarvis on percussion. The astounding bang in the first five seconds of this record is both the acknowledgement of passage and the entrance into the new... Four and Five is his finest moment yet; it reveals a new Jon Lloyd:  a jazz force to be reckoned with and learned from.- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide