DownBeat2019 DecemberafafFrank-John Hadley2019 December"Intending her sixth album to be an artistic and commercial breakout, Fish toggles between standard blues-rock bite and contained pop understatement on material that intelligently looks at the troubling side of love. Her pale and flushed voice, at times emotionally gauche, takes getting used to".
Living blues2019 OctoberafafHenry L. Carrigan2019 October"The songs on the album range from straight-ahead rockers to soul ballads and down-to-the-bone blues shouters ... Kill or Be Kind reveals a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who is discovering ways to weave her canny songwriting into her propulsive and often moving music and succeeding brilliantly".