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The guardian
d. 30. July 2017
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Emily Mackay
d. 30. July 2017
"As frontwoman of Howling Bells, a deliciously dark Australian rock band with country twangs to lose your heart in, Juanita Stein's solo debut should be a thrill. These roads, though, are just too well worn, ambling through Nancy'n'Leeville on Florence - a tribute to the woman depicted in Dorothea Lange's 1936 Migrant Mother photograph - stopping by Patsy Clinetown for Cold Comfort. The Chris Isaak romance of Dark Horse and the dusty space rock of Black Winds are lush enough, but there's not enough deviation from shtick, enough convincing deviance in this "ode to the dark heart" of the US. Stein is capable of more than just making America fine again".
Folk radio UK
d. 2. Aug. 2017
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Mike Davies
d. 2. Aug. 2017
"Following on from brother Joel's solo project, Glassmaps, it's now the turn Juanita Stein, singer and guitarist with Australian ex-pats Howling Bells, to release a solo album which has been gestating for some five years. It isn't too great a departure from the band's sound, or at least that on the last album, Heartstrings, in that it leans heavily on the empty desert country Americana with its brooding echoey twang-some guitars and dry, dusty atmospherics ...".