- R n R Magazine
**** 4 STARS "BEAUTIFULLY HAUNTING . . . POSITIVELY CINEMATIC . . . VIVID SOUNDSCAPES THAT BEAUTIFULLY RE-CEATE HER JOURNEY' (Saqqara)
- Six Music Internaional
***** 5 STARS 'ESBE IS A REALLY EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST . . . CAPTIVATING, MYSTERIOUS, ENCHANTING' (Saqqara)
- Monolith Cocktail
'DIAPHANOUS-BREATHED ENCHANTESS CONJURES UP . . . FILMIC DRAMA OF UNFURLED BEAUTY . . . EPIC . . . A VOICE THAT SMOULDERS . . . DREAMY SOUNDTRACK . . . LUSHLY PERFORMED' (Saqqara)
- Westzeit
'BEAUTIFUL' (Saqqara)
- Elsewhere
'IMPRESSIVE INTENSE, MELSIMATIC SINGING . . . OCILLATES BETWEEN IMAGINABLE AND ADORABLE' (Saqqara)
- Rootstime
'CAPTIVATING AND BEAUTIFUL' (Saqqara)
- Lira, Sweden
'IMPRESSIVE INTENSE, MELSIMATIC SINGING . . . OCILLATES BETWEEN IMAGINABLE AND ADORABLE' (Saqqara)
- Aaron Jackson - Folk Radio
'INTRIGUING AND POWERFUL . . . ESBE'S VOICE IS A THING OF BEAUTY . . . THE MORE YOU LISTEN, THE MORE YOU FIND. EXCELLENT.' (Ten Songs and Far Away)
- Nigel Williamson - Songlines
'DEBUTS DON'T COME MUCH MORE AMBITIOUS THAN THIS . . . ESBE PULLS IT OFF WITH IMPRESSIVE STYLE . . . BOLD AND DRAMATIC ARRANGEMENTS . . . MUSIC AS ECLECTIC AS HER ROOTS' (Desert Songs)
- R n R Magazine
'STARTLING SCOPE AND IMAGINATION . . .CAPACITY TO DELIGHT AND PERPLEX . . .BREADTH OF ESBE'S VISION . . . HUGELY ENJOYABLE' (Desert Songs)
'AND UNSWERVING MUSICAL VISION AND AN INNATE MUSICALITY . . . INVENTIVE, DRAMATIC, UNEXPECTED, EMOTIONAL' (Mystra)
'HAUNTING AND AFFECTING' (Ten Songs and Far Away)
'ALMOST PAINFULLY BEAUTIFUL' (Hope EP)
'BEAUTIFULLY HAUNTING . . . POSITIVELY CINEMATIC . . . VIVID SOUNDSCAPES THAT BEAUTIFULLY RE-CREATE HER JOURNEY . . . HER VOICE SOARS' (Saqqara)
- Analogue Resistance
'A BEAUTIFUL ALBUM . . . OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY' (Desert Songs)
- Prog Magazine
'A RARE BLEND OF COLOURS AND MOODS . . . ARRESTING BREW OF CLASSICAL, SAMPLES AND, RIDING ROMANTICALLY ACROSS IT, ESBE'S ELOQUENT VOICE . . . SPELLBINDING STORIES FROM A LOST WORLD . . .EXUDING ENIGMA' (Mystra)
- Northern Sky Magazine
'ENGAGING MUSIC. . . TWELVE ENCHANTING SONGS' (Desert Songs)
- Whisperin and Hollerin'
'ARABESQUE TEXTURES OF THE RICHLY LAYERED ARANGEMENTS . . . ENABLES ESBE TO USE HER VOICE AS A POWERFUL AND EMOTIONALLY CHARGED INSTRUMENT . . . AN ENIGMATIC AND POETIC TASTER . . . LEAVES YOU INTRIGUED TO WANT TO HEAR MORE' (Hope EP)
- ABSOLUTELY AMAZING Genevieve Tudor, BBC Radio Shropshire, UK
- SERIOUSLY LUSH SOUNDS DJ Debbie Golt, OuterGlobe, UK
- FASCINATING DIVERSE ALBUM Nick Gray, The Alterantive 9, UK