"The folk scene is suddenly awash with duos, but Clarke and Walker stand out due to their originality; she has a fine, cool vocal style and plays recorder, flute and saxophone, while he is an excellent guitarist and banjo player who also arranged the orchestral settings ... The Tangled Tree is a pained, drifting study of passing time and loss, the more upbeat, brass-backed I Never Learned French is about regret, while Earth & Ash & Dust is her darkest song about time and death. Bleak but impressive".