"Like Bella Hardy [Ward's] writing continues to expand and challenge at a rapid pace ,,, Her singing (...) has lept from adequate to striking and, with Su Hanna calling the shots in the control room, this is an album that carries a real sense of drama and majesty ... Hanna has a field day conjuring weirdly disquieting atmospherics, while the band (...) plays a prominent role in establishing the momentous soundscapes ... It's not entirely self-written. Indeed, the most illuminating of many ambitious arrangements is the meandering electric guitar and fierce percussion underpinning the well-thombed Child ballad Lord Randall ... There are, perhaps, parallels with the last Unthanks album Mount The Air in the way it painstakingly builds tension and mystery without any obvious crowd-pleasing gambits or heed of what will play well in radio programmers' offices. As such, it creates its own rarefied niche".