"Emily Portman is a worry. Such an amiable, cheery personality - such seriously weird, disturbed songs. If you thought her debut solo album The Glamoury was a bit, you know, away with the fairies, then it's got nothing on Hatchling. While maintaining a beatific smile and that lovely crystalline vocal approach, she surrounds herself with musicians clearly in tune with her rarefied wavelength (...), and delves even deeper into the enchanting and often dark underbelly of folklore - or indeed weirdlore, to use the term currently being bandied around with some enthusiasm".
