"You switch on, slide in the CD, press play - and something strange, unfamiliar and almost miraculous emerges. The Marry Waterson voice, for one, is immediately swarming all over you with its rich mix of wonder, enchantment and weirdness, spilling out odd words and phrases with no immediately obvious form over melodies that seem to gurgle up from the bowels of an earth of no known provenance ... [Besides David A Jaycock], the most significant collaborator here (...), has to be Portishead's Adrian Utley, who has produced the album and somehow contrived to create a sound that feels close enough to touch and taste. It's often weirdly bleak - obviously - but strangely hypnotic, too, and perfectly in step with both the striking Waterson voice and the disquieting references to garlands and graveyards that stem from the old English themes".