Joan Shelley

"The fifth album from the Kentucky singer-songwriter is her most intimate record yet, bracing and dense, featuring subtle production touches from Jeff Tweedy ... While it's a quieter record than its predecessors, and her ceaseless questions and lacerating self-doubt would seem like the opposite of asserting an artistic identity, Shelley's absence of imposition only emphasizes her enviable patience and burgeoning tenderness".

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"If Nick Drake and Sandy Denny had had a kid, she may have grown up to be Joan Shelley, a Kentucky folkie whose exquisitely hushed fourth album sounds like a collection of the world's most downcast sea shanties ... She does it all on her own, and beautifully".

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"Just like their last outing together, it's the interplay between Shelley and Salsburg - imagine a less strident, bluegrass state version of David Rawlings and Gillian Welch - that administers the bulk of the album's emotional heft. It's comfort food that's as nourishing as it is tasty".

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"Recorded live, often in first takes, this is an album of timeless American songwriting informed by the past but not beholden to it. When Shelley's ineffable voice dips unwxpectedly in "Where I'll Find You", or shifts effortlessly into upper register over the sparse but utterly apt accompaniment of "Even Though", the listener isn't merely impressed by her technique, but enraptured by her confessional, emotionally engaging songs".