"'Furling' expands [Baird's] sonic palette, bringing in piano, percussion, harp, vibraphone and more. The results bring new dimensions to her psychedelic folk, from "Ashes, Ashes", an open-ended, exploratory glide with Baird's wordless vocals ascending into the ether; to the slide guitar shading in the melancholy of "The Saddest Verses"; to the deftly orchestrated "Star Hill Song". Baird's characteristic intimacy hasn't been sacrificed in the process, however: "Cross Bay" pares production back to some delicious American primitivism guitar and Baird's vocal, channelling the unsettling spook of 'For The Roses'-era Joni and conjuring a bleakly folky magic".
