“Tipps and Obermiller: Little Kid Heart (self-released) - As a full‑fledged albeit male half of a marriage the only child of which was adopted as a two‑week‑old and which has thrived for half a century along those lines, I have more emotional access than most to Hilary Tipps’s “I will never hear a heart beat underneath my heart/Labor through the night and finally hold her in my arms” as well as its natural offspring “Love wrote me a letter postmarked as a song.” Somewhat less hearteningly, also featured is a 10‑year‑old who gets through eighth grade by way of an occasional swig from a bottle designed for liquor that she carries wherever she goes.  A”

- Robert Christgau - The Dean of American Rock Critics
(The Village Voice, Esquire, Creem, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Playboy)