"Hackman's ghostly whisper is mostly set against her plucked acoustic guitar and depth charge-like sounds or distant cries, although Animal Fear is almost calypso and on the almost post-punk Open Wide she sounds like a spook fronting 17 Seconds-era Cure. Monday Afternoon seems to be a bewitched, folksy tale of lovers' rotting corpses, while the Wicker Man-like Skin and Undone, Undress are superbly claustrophobic. A subtle, understated debut that takes its time, but lands its blows".