"Whatever else, you've got to love the catchphrases accompanying this little gem - "dream duo" and "hardcore Americana meets hardcore Anglicana" ... Hardcore is right. In material, in style and -especially - in attitude, this is not for the faint of heart. Carthy has a full-blooded approach to everything she does and in Eriksen she has an accomplice who matches her daredevil spirit ... Carthy's characteristic, charging fiddle clashes vigorously with Eriksen's acerbic guitars and banjo over a rugged selection of songs from both of their traditions, sharing vocals with equally uncompromising fervour ... It's seldom pretty, but then nor is life. Or death. A powerful antidote to the determined prettyfication of folk song".