”This album grows on you with each listen and is a definite musos album. With definite echoes of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and the booze lashed, cigarette stinking romanticism of Shane MacGowan's lyrics, Mäkkelä takes a less trodden path and invites you on his journey in search for a 'Homeland'."
(Fatea Magazine, UK)

"[...]folk, jazz, world moves, and topical/timeless folk songs. [...] spirited intensity underneath all of these songs."
(folkworld.eu)