"Irish singer/songwriter Lisa O'Neill's distinctive provincial folk tales have made her a regional treasure over the years ... Her lilting, rough-hewn cadence carries with it the weight, strength, and spry humor of her homeland, and her storytelling rings true and grounded, even at its most mystic and confounding"

"Steeped in the cadence of her native County Cavan, the album is by turns raw and wild, warm and melodic, grief-stricken and exuberant, driven always by the drama inherent in the song ... Here, she unfurls a sequence of eight originals bound together by a cascade of imagery drawn largely from nature, in particular the bird kingdom, "a lawless league of lonesome beauty" the singer yearns to join ... Transcendent and original - a triumph"

"This record's peers might be Astral Weeks, Starsailor, Music For A New Society, New Skin For The Old Ceremony and, in particular, Mary Margaret O'Hara's Miss America. She's not out of place among these ghosts either. If you've ever been spellbound by those songs of love, loss, wonder and despair, you need to listen to Lisa O'Neill"