"The Ashtray Hearts coined the genre "Apartment Music" to describe their alt-country sound: Old Numbers embellishes basic folk ballads with accordions, pianos, organs, and trumpets, while the lyrics make the most familiar bus stops, dive bars, and main streets seem hopelessly romantic."

- City Pages

"ASHTRAY HEARTS "PERFECT HALVES" - Recorded in the dead of winter in a church in Duluth, the second CD by this six-member neo-Americana band actually sounds like spring thaw, its rich guitar noodling and accordion bits dripping over frontman Dan Richmond's budding romanticism." 

- Star Tribune

"Finding alt-country a snooze? Yeah, me too. That is, until the Ashtray Hearts invited me to eavesdrop at their worn apartment door, allowing me to digest slow, gentle tales of disappointment and regret that are centered on the heart. The results: a beautiful, melancholy delight perfect for those lonely autumn days and cold winter nights. "

- Amy Carlson, music writer, St. Paul Pioneer Press