A remarkable song-cycle… it's the portrait of grief beyond measure that's so affecting and which this moving hour of solitudinous lamentation, confusion and defiance brings beautifully to the fore.

Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph

Startlingly effective… the tokens of the plague – a raised circle of marks on the body – and the tokens of love become entwined in a world in which a kiss can bring death.

Lyn Gardner, Guardian

A potent, moving balance of formal and emotional elements ... This journey has momentum: early insouciance gives way to grotesque fascination, paranoia, absurd humour, forbearance, grizzled survivalism and a kind of ecstasy.

Ben Walters, Time Out