Strata

"There is something highly admirable about the unhurried, slightly contrary path of award-winning young traditional singer Siobhan Miller ... Nothing ground-breaking it's true, but all beautifully done".

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"For Strata, Siobhan Miller has recorded a collection of songs that she grew up listening to and singing in her youth. These eleven pieces run the gamut from the traditional through to the contemporary. The resulting album pays homage to and celebrates Miller's past whilst looking towards the future ... Although it, on occasion, plays a little too safe, Strata is an album that comes from the heart. Miller's warm paean to her past is sure to bring pleasure to many".

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"Although Miller's singing retains the distinctive tender, limpid quality that we all loved in her previous work, age is adding a deeper register and a richer patina to her voice, which has never been better. For example, her delivery of the Bob Dylan song "One Too Many Mornings" is full of depth, colour and controlled emotion, and she's accompanied by a gorgeous arrangement on fiddle, piano and guitars ... Miller takes on some big and famous ballads here, and certainly holds her own. Her vocal tone and phrasing brings out the full loveliness of the melody of "The Unquiet Grave". Her rendition of Ed Pickford's "What You Do With What Yo've Got" compares very favourably with the classic version by Dick Gaughan (one of her musical heroes). Miller's [very different] interpretation is a positive, uptempo, joyous, celebratory acoustic-pop anthem, and her warm, sweet, slightly-bluesy vocal is a delight ... My only reservation about this hugely enjoyable album is that itoccasionallytries a little too hard for the commercial succes it aims for".