Online haunt of influential journalists, the Arts Desk website is a key website reference point for those in the media.  So it’s great to see that Saturnine has been chosen as the Arts Desk CD of the day for August 31st.  To view the review click here.

‘The 12 dark and twisted ballads are largely about murdur, violence and magical trickery.  But sung in Oates’s disinfecting voice an interesting tension arises.  It is the musical equivalent of seeing the purest girl-next-door you know smoking a fag…a confident arrangement of traditional tunes, brilliantly executed and startling to hear.’  Arts Desk, 31st Aug 2011