"Though inspired by the endless waiting felt during the moving statues phenomenon in `80s Ireland, where religious statues reportedly moved spontaneously, there's no anticipation for a holy punk apparition here. Everything we could have expected with `Time Bends and Break the Bower' has been delivered"

"It's a dark world in Sinead O'Brien's head. Fully erecting the vision she began on 2020's Drowning In Blessings EP, her debut full-length - Time Bend And Break The Bower - is distinctly purposeful in its immersive moves"