Deborah Robins probably is a fine singer but I don't think this review is doing her any good. One of the best (if that is what he means by "most urgent"??) albums in 50 years is pure unadultered hyperbole. And the reviewer dissing all other singers as "affected child-like voices" makes me mad. Yes, there are some out there, but has he never heard of Fay Hield, Bryony Griffith, Lucy Ward, Lucy Wright, Nicola Kearey, Fiona Hunter, Karine Polwart, Maggie Boyle, Eliza Carthy, Marry Waterson, Norma Waterson, Frankie Armstrong, June Tabor ...?
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