"Stunningly uncrafty.Priya Thomas is Blood Heron is an unguarded album of betrayal, cutting losses and creating things from scratch. It's raw stuff - all guts, bones and jugular veins" - Disc of the Week, Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail
"In a world where so many female singers make little more than background music, here's a songwriter who is not afraid to stand up in front, take risks, and challenge her listeners. And she can write uncompromising, half-broken songs as good as Tom Waits or anyone else. This is an extraordinary album." - Berkeley Place -"Buy-or-Die", Brooklyn, NY
"The album stands with some of the best homespun work by folks like Sufjan Stevens and Bruce Springsteen. With limited session players and garage sale instruments, the album simmers with ramshackle beauty." - Jason Lewis, FFwd Weekly, Calgary
"Simply knee-buckling songwriting skills to fall in love with.
Blood Heron is Priya Thomas' naked expression of all that she is and because she makes no excuses or apologies for it, it is a potent and beautiful record. Songwriters of any stripe can only hope to release a record as strong as this." - Bill Adams, Ground Control, L.A
"Both the chops and the nerve to hang with the Bob Dylans and Lucinda Williamses of the songwriting world. Playing most of the instruments herself, including pots and pans on “Farewell Creek,” Priya Thomas has taken her deep knowledge of musical history and channeled it into a mix of songs that almost don’t fit together, but somehow work perfectly." - Joshua deGroot, The Gateway Online, University of Alberta
"Poetess Priya is Canada's answer to Patti Smith, only she's a much better singer, a much better writer and a whole lot smarter. Plus, she lives up to the song title 'Your Guitar, My Undoing' by unleashing a blistering solo the likes of which hasn't been heard since Fripp lost a grip on 'Here Come the Warm Jets'." - Jeffrey Morgan, The Detroit Metro Times
"Thomas' first-take creations are built on a blues/folk foundation, with guitars, piano, organ and omnichord kicking it drawn out and pretty, raw and gritty, or stoney and droney" - Disc of the Week, Lorraine Carpenter, The Montreal Mirror
"Spitting out the lyrics the way Dylan spewed out 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue,' Thomas manages to come across as both seething and perfectly composed" - John Sakamoto, The Toronto Star
"An uncompromising artistic statement, combing raw, Tom Waits-ian instrumentation with waves of free association lyrics reminiscent of Mary Margaret O'Hara's cult classic, Miss America." - Jason Schneider, The Record, Kitchener-Waterloo
".beautifully layered songs with a lo-fi feel, a voice that can pull off both a rock-out growl (“Vigilante”) and sweet harmonies (“O Holy Texas”), and lyrics that cut deep."
- Amanda Farrell, Monday Magazine, Victoria
"Blood Heron rewards the listener's attention with a journey of crunchy attitude and moments of ragged grace" - E. E Mason, Discorder, Vancouver
For more info, priyathomas.com
