"In their long career Solas have previously dipped their toes into social history, but they've never before tackled anything quite like Shamrock City, the story of Michael Conway's 1910 emigration from Ireland to Butte, Montana to work in the copper mines ... The band's outstanding current singer Niamh Varian-Barry assumes the role of guide along Conway's fateful journey, with an emotional delivery of Far Americay over Winnie Horan's appropriately mournful fiddle ... We get guest vocalists popping up all over the place (Rhiannon Giddens, Aoife O'Donovan and Dick Gaughan with a ferociously good Labour Day) to accomodate the mood swings in what evolves into a cracking story".
