Press
Reviews for All The Ghosts
**** 'This fine album....will be on the year-end hitlist whatever its genre' - The Guardian
**** 'All The Ghosts is the sound of a young lady who has more than found her feet' - The Beat Surrender
**** 'Shifting metres, contrasting backgrounds, and lyrics that actually mean something.' - Jazzwise
**** 'Beautifully observed vignettes about outsider women' - Daily Telegraph
**** 'If Hanns Eisler had been a woman and written with Ray Davies, he might have come up with something like this.' -Independent on Sunday
**** 'The beguiling storytelling voice beautifully enriches these nine tracks... Tricky to categorise but fantastically easy to warm to.' - Metro
**** 'All The Ghosts brims with imagination, compassion and vivid longing.' - City Life
**** 'A varied and fascinating album.' - Fly Global Music
'Herbert's powerful but affecting voice is imbued with sincerity, sympathy and intelligence; the songs' melodies are at once immediately arresting and accessible.' - Vortex Jazz
'[this] healthy dose of eccentricity makes for rewarding listening that's never twee' - Buzz Magazine
'The spirit of Ray Davies [and] Nina Simone.' - Dorset Echo
'A warm sultry talk on acoustic folk and pop' - Daily Mail
'Her singing - warm, soulful, and with a husky hint of Elkie Brooks - is classy throughout' - Mojo Magazine
'Delightfully diverse and unpredictable' ALBUM OF THE WEEK - Sunday Mercury
'Set to be a major sound this summer' - Stella - Daily Telegraph
'There's a lovely sense of Britishness about this girl, not only is she a talent vocally but a strong songstress too.' 8/10 -Blues & Soul
'She has a fine sense of melody and her latest songs tell stories that equal 'Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station, every Friday night' or 'Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins'.' - BBC Online
'The airy, acoustic arrangements are imaginative, full of shifting tempos and textures.' - The Times
'Letting her voice soar to emotional highs... with plenty of memorable hooks and whitty one-liners.' - Time Out
Reviews for Between Me and the Wardrobe
***** 'With her bewitching voice, the jazz-folk star was never just your standard covers singer. And here is the proof' - Observer Music Monthly Observer Music Monthly
"Her lyrics are consistently engaging... singing with a rare balance of passion and control... (Between Me an the Wardrobe is) one of this year's word-of-mouth hits, with Herbert poised as one of Britain's brightest young talents." -The Telegraph
**** 'Singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert has just released her third and finest album... warm melodies, honeyed vocals and brilliant observational lyrics' - DIVA
'Superb music... Brilliantly original, full of space and isolated detail.' - MOJO
'A Masterpiece' - Courtney Pine
'Given the freedom to write the record that she wanted, Herbert has delivered a set of very personal songs on which she often sounds closer to Sandy Denny than, say, Sarah Vaughan. Each has a singular mood and texture, from the bittersweet balladry of Midnight Oil to the euphoria of The Morning After… her exquisite voice has found a happier home.'- The Times
'The songs are compacted narrative jewels... The music is oak-like, rich and weathered... full of unexpected and highly rewarding details. Recommended.' - BBC Jazz Review
'Gwyneth Herbert is blessed with a timeless voice full of vulnerability, playfulness and pathos. Rounded out only by a gut-string guitar and a double bass, her music is the stuff of dreams — at twists light, funny, intimate, heartwringing and truly emotive. Recently signed to Blue Note, Herbert breathes with talent as both a vocalist and a composer, something that is more than evident in her ethereal mixture of folk, jazz and the familiar cadences of 20th-century musical traditions.' -Flavorpill
'Their (the songs') affecting power is so pronounced as to entirely vindicate her commendable insistence on making her own voice heard rather than as she was reportedly asked to do by Universal recording an album of big-band covers. For Herbert's own voice is, in the literal sense, a wonderfully flexible instrument, capable both of whispered intimacy and pleasantly strident power; in the figurative sense it is expressive of a rich complex of emotions...' - The Vortex Review
'Gwyneth Herbert has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve heard in a very long time, at once fragile and powerful and always dripping with emotion.' 10/10 - DSD
Press Quotes
‘The jazz folk-diva with an awesome voice. Expect beguiling, powerful and often witty songs that strike an emotional chord!’ - Time Out, London
‘Not a jazz singer in the strictest sense of the word, Herbert has more in common with the singer-songwriters of the Joni Mitchell era. But she possesses a flawless sense of swing, a jazz improviser’s ear for detail and her superb new trio generate backdrops that are as seductive as anything you will hear from luminaries such as Cassandra Wilson. The arrangements were never less than first class while her voice is a thing of beauty’ -The Sunday Times
‘A remarkably gifted talent’ - The Guardian
‘Intelligent and technically awesome singer’ - The Guardian
‘A gifted singer and a true audience communicator’ - The Independent
‘If Gwyneth Herbert is not a star before long, I'll eat my CD player’ - The Sunday Times
‘Herbert is a hugely assured, sensual vocalist who can live a lyric’ - The Times
‘Gwyneth Herbert owns a voice that reminds us all that despite everything, life is actually a pretty beautiful thing. It is sassy, sad and personal and ranges effortlessly from hushed storytelling to passion licked wails’ - Edinburgh Festival Review 2005
