"As Julie Fowlis continues to develop her broad repertoire of Gaelic song, alterum succeeds in exploring connections with other languages, cultures and art forms that enrich her music even further. As the specially commissioned work of Highland photographer Craig Mackay that adorns the album demonstrates, the universal themes of transition, loss, spirituality resonate in any language, including music and art. Above all, though, alterum is, quite simply, an album of the most beautiful music".