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Trills of harp-like melody underscore its essential artificiality, but its constant movement from one section to the next makes the piece seem organic and alive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

Trills and brushy arpeggiated motifs conjure the Bach suites at the center of the cello’s repertory, as the solo line goes back and forth from anxiously repetitive riffs to serene, expansive lyricism.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

At this album-release concert, which will also include singing about silly things that don’t go together, Ms. Mullins will be joined by Amelia Robinson, of Mil’s Trills, singing backup.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016

Highlights will also include numbers from her band’s latest album, “Now That We’re Friends …,” and a screening of the first Mil’s Trills videos.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2016

Trills, twitterings, grace notes, little runs upward ending in the air—surely it was a boy's heart, and not unhappy.

From Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905 by Hichens, Robert Smythe