Selected Press
Sarah Louise shape[s] mystical paeans to salamanders, floods and frogs -The New York Times
Earth Bow…present[s] a new form of aural communion…sound forms in tune with the thrust of existence. -NPR
She has the ability to conjure worlds…jeweled landscapes…[unfurl] in constantly renewing wonder. -Pitchfork
There’s a continual sense of wonder throughout the album...[Louise] help[s] [people] locate a meaningful space within their everyday world, the album endlessly expansive in its desire to help and to heal. -Uncut Magazine
Her songs radiate the mysteries and wonders of the natural world. -Paste Magazine
[This] sense of wonder reaches a profound peak on…'Earth Wakes Up,'...one of the most heart-swelling love songs of the year. 'We feel the land/ It touches back' she sings. On Earth Bow, Louise’s best album to date, that connection has never felt so intimate and moving. - Bandcamp’s Album of the Day
What you hear on the record is an artist riding the currents of a far-reaching and unrestrained creative freedom. - Aquarium Drunkard
Cosmic in every sense of the word.. -Pop Matters
[Sarah Louise] demonstrates tangible respect for tradition without being hidebound by it. -The Quietus
The throughline in [Sarah Louise’s] ’s diverse catalog…is a sense of reverence for the world of plants and animals…these devotionals to the wilderness also feel like representations of it…sound paintings of meadows and creek beds, with [her] guitar playing the role of all the creatures and constructing the environments they inhabit. -Spin Magazine
[Sarah Louise] makes it easy to inhabit her intimate world, one where the small wonders of the woods and the abounding melodic possibilities of a 12-string guitar are complementary fractals." - NPR’s First Listen
Opener ‘Daybreak’ has inexorably blossoming layers of ambient guitar, the eventual vocal entry akin to the first shafts of sunlight suddenly illuminating the dawn horizon. -Mojo Magazine
[Sarah Louise]…enact[s] sonic ceremonies that celebrate the natural world. - Dusted Magazine
One imagines this might be what plants would sound like if we could tune in to their frequency. - Hartford Courant
[Sarah] Louise’s guitar imitates patterns from an oscillating modular synthesiser as [Morgan’s] banjo figures loop round; the effect shows how closely nature and electronics can connect. - The Guardian
Her guitar’s rippling cascades, sparkling arpeggios and reflective pauses evoke a precious sanctuary of lush rhododendron canopies, lyrical streams, dappled glades and bountiful forest floors. -Wire Magazine
[Sarah] Louise has become one of the most exciting figures in solo guitar music. -Pitchfork
Allowing listeners to find the calm in such furiously beautiful skill, Sarah Louise’s talent defines modern guitar master-work. -Tiny Mix Tapes