The Scotsman
“There were electronic echoes a-plenty also in the opening set from Co Down singer and harpist Brona McVittie, accompanied by Jack Hayter on steel guitar and Anne Garner on concert […]
R2 Magazine
“An album full of inventive arrangements that is well worth a listen” Ian Croft, R2 Magazine
Irish Music Magazine
“Fantastic solo debut” Eileen McCabe, Irish Music Magazine
fROOTS
“Memorably evokes her native Co Down” Sarah Coxson, fROOTS
Penny Black Music
“McVittie’s music goes some way to showing us what Yeats was searching for” Nicky Crewe, Penny Black Music
Lauren Laverne
“I can’t stop listening to this…it’s a really special album!” Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music
★★★★ Mojo
“McVittie takes her inspiration from W.B. Yeats’s idea of a kind of Celtic phantasmagoria which can be felt but remains essentially ineffable, and has recorded a timeless mix of traditional […]
The Séance
“Excellent folk opus” Pete Wiggs, The Séance
Songwriting Magazine
“A debut album of serious quality. Inventive modern folk” Duncan Haskill, Songwriting Magazine
FATEA Magazine
“On We Are the Wildlife, Brona’s timeless and tireless psycho-geographic quest for the meaning and nature of ‘the Celtic heart’ is potently voiced in music of subliminal beauty. Something of a […]