"Folk album of the month" - "This one sounds like nothing else. It feels simultaneously ancient and modern, profound and direct, led by the peculiar, beautiful sound of the smallpipes. [20-year old] Brìghde Chaimbeul (...) has [played] with pipers across eastern Europe, digging into [her instrument's] traditions in Cape Breton and Ireland, unearthing forgotten songs from her own Hebrides and the Highlands ... Recorded live in a church in the Black Isle Georgian town of Cromarty, the drone of Chaimbeul's smallpipes whip you in, like the line of a wire (so do the wheezes of a harmonium she found in the church). You're reminded of Laura Cannell's midnight-shaded, shuddering violin playing, or the gothic mood of Scandinavian artists such as Anna von Hausswolff ... Lau's Aidan O'Rourke produces, bringing out the rich textural potential of the breaths and creaks of her sound. Lankum's Radie Peat joins on concertina, while pioneering 82-year-old singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, who first inspired Chaimbeul to play pipes when she was four, sings canntaireachd (a phonetic singing tradition used to teach pipe tunes) on several tracks. Their effect is both trance-like and immediate, heartfelt and raw, adding to this album's unforgettable deep atmosphere".
