I Like Music, Sacha Whitmarsh, July 2009.
"Joni Davis' songs are most definitely dark; her deep, powerful voice as intense as her lyrics; resonating over strong, simple piano. Think Carole King shaken with Nina Simone and poured by PJ Harvey."
Space City Rock, Jef With One F, 6 February 2009.
"There's a scene in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine where the Time Traveler pushes his machine millions of years into the future and sits on a beach under a dying red sun. There, he watches life itself begin to fade, like a person with terminal cancer slipping off bit by bit. If, when he had come to a stop, there had been a girl at a piano quietly singing a requiem for the Earth, that girl would have to be Joni Davis."
Wears the Trousers, Alan Pedder, 16 July 2008.
"With her resonant, powerful voice, Joni weaves astonishingly direct and affecting tales full of melancholy, reparation and the transience of the human condition. The immaculate production, by Joni and her husband, at times gives the feeling of having her singing only for you in the very same room. A brilliant performance of unsettling, incredible, positively sepulchral songs, A Bird's Heart simply begs for wider recognition."
North Bay Bohemian, Gabe Meline, 9 January 2008. View full text of article.
"It's this sort of unconventional songwriting that will inevitably draw comparisons to PJ Harvey's latest all-piano album White Chalk... Like Jolie Holland, Joni Davis is able to distill folk music, carnival music, jazz and balladry into something new and strange."
Close your eyes, listen and be spellbound, John Beck, Press Democrat, 20 January 2006
"Her debut collection of nine piano-driven ballads has more in common lyrically with Nick Cave or Sparklehorse, but its Bessie Smith or Nina Simone who come to mind... because she carries the same weight..."
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