Press

**** Uncut
**** Independent on Sunday

‘The soaring purity of Oates’s vocals washes through the songs leaving them like clean streets after a bout of rain.’ Arts Desk 

‘Before you know it you have been sucked completely into the album’s quirky, faintly unearthly atmosphere.  Which I guess is what she intended all along.’ fRoots

‘The twelve dark and twisted ballads are largely about murder, violence and magical trickery.  But sung in Oates’s disinfecting voice an interesting tension arises.  It’s 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 

‘A luscious album…rich in so many ways.’ Songlines

‘What’s most impressive here is the way the arrangements and instrumentation weave together so seamlessly…comparisons with June Tabor are apt.’ Uncut ****

‘It’s the rustic beauty of Oates’ voice that enthrals.’ Mojo

‘Hers is such a different world that whenever I hear [her] I just want to be part of it’ Word

‘Oates remains the sweetest voice of her generation of English folkies’ Independent On Sunday

‘Marked out by the purity of her voice…makes for an atmosphere of rare enchantment’ The Observer

‘Oates has the finest voice of them all…Saturnine shows Oates at the top of her game’ Independent On Saturday [album of the week].