“smear reveals an ear for timbre, a gift for musical elaboration and a more sophisticated palette than anyone might have guessed. Greenwood is clearly a composer in the making.”
Financial Times (Andrew Clark)
"(Popcorn Superhet Receiver) For strings only, it owns up to an influence from early Penderecki. But the substance of the music is something else altogether.
A slow blur of impossibly rich chords starts to let through faint solo instruments, now tentative and now stronger. It is at its most captivating when big chords fade and wisps of inner detail are left floating. Unlike the rest of the programme, it paraded the primacy of feeling over guile, a stance that doesn't usually get people far in British music. Let’s hope he has the strength of mind to protect this original voice."
The Independent (Robert Maycock)