"Heather Minor and Emma Morton claim "a shared love of traditional folk and modern classical, distorted through a lens of mediæval and baroque music, traditional Indian and Chinese music, dream/synth pop, minimalism, experimental music and 60s/70s folk". White Flowers (their debut album) was recorded in a Brighton church, predominantly accompanied by Minor's organ, piano and keyboards, with sparsely deployed cello, autoharp and shruti ... Nature provides rich inspiration and imagery ... That skinny-looking cloaked fellow, carrying a scythe, is often lurking in a Lutine lyric too, but their siren songs are the most melodic of melancholies (...), truly "a beautiful sadness". Brilliant arrangements of the traditional songs Died Of Love and Death And The Lady and a beguiling cover of Come Wander With Me (sourced from a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone) blend in perfect sequence with the seven originals, forming a rarefied sonic atmosphere over the listener. [You] may discerntracesof the folk-classicism of Twelfth day, the received pronunciation harmonies of Smoke Fairies, the Askew Sisters' love of traditional ballads or First Aid Kit's fondness for an autoharp, but Lutine sound like genuine originals".
