"The low-key, beautifully arranged indie-folk of Yorkshire 17-year-old [Billie Marten's] debut album, reminiscent of Lucy Rose and the young Laura Marling, will draw inevitable cries of "old soul". In truth though, Writing of Blues and Yellows, although musically miles above the average tremulous, John Lewis-y singer-songwriter sort, has the limited palette of juvenilia; no humour, little anger, just delicate, pastel wistfulness ... There's surely better to come, though".