Spin (7/94, p.70) - "...A forbidding tone is established on the opening `Nobody Can,' and it doesn't let up even on the final track...Between these two points lie some of my favorite things: obsession...insecurity...and fear of intimacy...all of them wrapped in a claustrophobic skein of strings...."

Vibe (3/94, p.118) - "...follows Caron Wheeler's pattern by releasing a solo album that reveals a versatility and presence only hinted at by her work within a collective....On WHAT SILENCE KNOWS, the singer's expressiveness is allowed to come fully to the fore...."

Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #39 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.