” (Urchin) … a fantastic second effort from one of the best artists I’ve heard in a long time” … David Ewing
” … an unfinished seam, a deliberately raggedy edge … few songwriters have such an immediately identifiable technique as Dowling” … Glen Cooksley
“Dowling’s singing displays the timbre of the late Ronnie Drew, and the gravitas and phrasing of Dave Cousins, admirable traits indeed when welded to Dowling’s rootsy earthy material” … Rock n Reel