Reviews of Pied Flycatcher:

Folk Radio: "Kate’s music is both visual and mystical, something she is constantly tapping into which is borne of her love for nature."

Folk & Roots: "While I can’t help thinking Kate has a distinct kinship with performers like Abbie Lathe and Kate Bush, there’s not the same sense of maverick quirkiness nor any sense of plagiarism in Kate’s profoundly original songs".

Folking.com: "I can’t imagine a better way to hear her than in the open air far from the intrusions of civilisation."

Roots and Branches: "Pure, lovely and serenely soothing."

Rated "*****" by The Scotsman newspaper.
"Sheer Magic" - Folk and Roots
"Delightful" - BBC Wales
"Gorgeous" - Folk cast
"Mystical, sincere, beautiful, a born natural" - Folk Radio

Reviews of Belonging:

Download an interview in Acoustic Magazine with Kate.

"Kate's one of the most imaginative of the current crop of singer-songwriters. 
"Her music is strongly spiritual, beautiful and inspirational, confident yet vulnerable, all the while intelligently conceived and executed. 
"Some songs are built around, or flow directly from, original chants; others build African-inspired musical adventures around a base of quintessentially English folk songwriting that's intensely poetic (Kate name-checks the late Frances Horowitz as a major inspiration).
"Kate's voice and delivery make compelling listening and the impact of her songs is disarmingly tactile, from the delicate filigree of Wild Poppies to the Aboriginal delta-slide groove of Eucalyptus, the quivering Balkan chamber-folk of Silver Blue to the floating, rippling, kora-drenched Watch The Flowers. 
"Kate's songs are like world music on an intimate scale, combining the environmental conscience, concerns and compassion of an Abbie Lathe with the eager exploratory nature of a Kate Bush.
"Producer Joe Broughton masterminds the album's textures: gently layered, light and airy and yet with no lack of substance. 
"A most intriguing and uplifting CD, and attractively packaged too." - Propergander Magazine July 2008

"A superb album." - read the full review on Acoustic Magazine

"Belonging exudes a charming eccentricity ... chant-like vocal arrangements that range from haunting and evocative, to just plain weird! ... You will be seduced... I warn you!" - read the full review on Folking.com.

"It's an album that seeps inside you, taking root and blossoming into a spiritual soundtrack for the soul ... Together they create an intoxicating brew, rich in layered and sinously subtle arrangements hewn equally from the musical traditions of West Africa, Irish backwaters, the mississipi and hayricks of England." - read the full review on NetRhythms

Reviews of our debut album Renewal:

"'Breaking through to reveal those splendid wings for flight' reads a line from the title track - and what better way to describe this, Kate Doubleday's debut CD, her emerging song writing talents and a voice that simply takes flight and soars.
"Kate's music is so original as to defy categorisation - "world music" that stretches from the heart of England to South Africa, taking in countries such as Ireland and Bulgaria on the way, might begin to describe it." - Folk Magazine 2003

"One of the first things worth saying about both this artist and recording is that Doubleday isn't your run of the mill singer-songwriter, never mind some of the negative and vague connotations of the term itself, none of which can be said to apply to Doubleday, whilst she brings the clearly diverse influences to bear in her recording she moulds them into her own style." - Folk and Roots 2003

"Whether standing alone or weaving through intricate multi-tracked harmonies as with the layered backing of Rise and Fall, her reedy, soaring voice has the taste of summer rain, beautifully set here among imaginative arrangements that vein Sid Peacock's acoustic guitar with Ruth Angell's violin, Trevor Lines's assorted basses, percussion courtesy Rocky Amoo and Mark Lockett, and her own thumb piano. At times (as with Needs And Wants) sounding not unlike a one woman Poozies, her songs of loss and renewal weave an evocative cool spell." - Netrhythms.co.uk & Brumbeat by Mike Davies

Kate Doubleday's "somersaulting soaring vocals" - What's On magazine 2003