A Hand Full Of Hurricanes may contain a few fillers, but it's a fine example of dark, uncompromising, brooding rock scattered with moments of experimentation and backed by an astonishing display of domineering vocal beauty.  Full text...

Having grown up with a similar folk-rock background (her parents are Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp), Rose Kemp also inclines toward the punkily confrontational in her own music. And, like Wainwright, she's a prolific collaborator, singing with three Bristol bands while also steering a solo career.  Full text...

As debut albums go, it isn't a bad starting point. There are numerous instances where Kemp's sinewy, rasping vocal rises above the rest of the pack - most of whom are admittedly ‘rediscovering’ their street side at present - while some of the instrumentation is somewhat unexpected for a record of this nature.  Full text...

A Hand Full of Hurricanes sound like a small storm in a rather big teacup.   Full text...

much of A Hand Full of Hurricanes manages, curiously, to sound both anguished and rather bland — imagine a project on Gothic confessionals that Katie Melua might have submitted while she was at the Brit School for the Performing Arts.  Full text...