"like driving out into the green English wilderness and chancing upon a folk night singaround at a remote village pub called 'The Syphilis Ploughboy'. The crusty bread is hallucinogenic, The Handsome Family have booked a room for the night and there's a dead body in the duck pond." (New-Noise.Net)
"Somewhere between the points defined by the eclectic folk eccentricity of the Incredible String Band and John Cooper Clark's stream of punk poet consciousness" (Burton Mail)
"brings to mind Leonard Cohen in a snug bar or a more loveable Chumbawamba. Murphy's raspy vocals also conjure up the spirit of Strummer and many of these songs could be off some alternative Sandinista! (The West Briton)
"a classmate of the likes of Morrisey and Jarvis Cocker" (Warwickshire and Worcestershire Herald)
”REM would kill, hopefully each other, for songs like these!(Unpeeled fanzine April 04)
"quintessentially British music that fits right in the long line running from the Kinks through the Smiths and on into Blur, bookish romantics always ready to conceal a breaking heart with a biting wit." (Morning Star)
"The twisted folk element is engrained in every track…unpredictable and sometimes uneasy listening" (Flux)
“string-haunted modern urban angst, like Nick Cave on the dole…to paraphrase Art Brut: Sergeant Buzfuz - TOP OF THE POPS!” (SoundsXP.com)