Punch

"An eighth studio album in 28 years is hardly a prolific output and after so many line-up changes that I have stopped counting (although there is one remaining original member - Mary Macmaster) we have now arrived at an interesting juncture where we have four multi-instrumentalists who are able to collectively command the listener's attention like never before ... Took me a while to get used to the minimal harp content, but now I'm a born-again fiddle evangelist. These four ladies rock".

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"Punch is the first album from the all-female Scottish outfit The Poozies to feature new recruits Tia Files and Sarah McFadyen ... Punch comes with a variety of different meanings, but all of them have an underlying sense of drive and energy, of vim, verve and sheer pizzaz, as well as being a potent drink made up of various different flavours and spirits that coalesce into something uniquely its own. Pour yourself a glass and feel the oomph".

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"The latest (re)incarnation of the trailblazing all-female outfit may be far removed from its original line-up in terms of personnel (only electro-harp legend Mary Macmaster remains), but they still sure mean business! The opening (title) salvo (...) is a sensational onslaught of stomp, with fiddles and guitar driving a tricky time-signature that's guaranteed to get feet out onto the floor in anticipation if not in actuality. Although the Poozies ethos has always celebrated diversity, originality, devilment and joy, this latest offering is especially supercharged, exuberant and exciting ... What a mighty sound they can make for a four-pice! It's both bewitching and scary, for there's also a sinister alchemy at work between the four very different (and self-confessedly off-kilter!) musical personalities - and a keen sense of delicious mischief to boot ... "Punch" can surely be counted the Poozies' most dynamic album to date".