"This is her first album in six years, and she is on remarkably powerful, confident form, helped out by family and distinguished friends. The opening track alone makes the set worthwhile. Love's for Babies and Fools is a sturdy, bleak, self-written ballad in which her carefully articulated vocals are backed by the fine acoustic guitar work of her ex-husband Richard Thompson, with echoes of their classic work together in the 1970s".