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"8/10. Ex-Monkey Swallows The Universe singer Johnson launches her solo career with a rattling, traditional Nashville juke-joint hoedown. Once heard, the whipsmart chorus won't be forgotten." - Planet Sound
"There's no doubt about it - this is modern UK country music. In fact, it is reasonably close to country classic 'Jolene' except on this version, instead of harpy-voiced Dolly Parton taking charge it is none other than silken voiced Nat Johnson of Monkey Swallows the Universe fame. This is a woman with such a vocal gift that it is hard to think of anything that she could sing badly." - TastyZine
"Nat Johnson is a small chip off the oddly named little jewel Monkey Swallows the Universe who sadly split a few months ago and this debut solo single comfortably sits alongside the works of that criminally underrated band. Window casing two sides of her considerable talents, she delivers galloping country (Dirty Rotten Soul) and delicate folk (Mexico) with aplomb, both displaying her lovely rounded vocals and ear for a melody." - Sounds XP
"Whereas MSTU went for the folkier end of the indie pop spectrum Dirty Rotten Soul is a rockier country affair that needs to be washed down with a whiskey or two such is the western style feel that it brings to mind. Yee hah!" - Indie MP3
"Johnson has carved out a deliciously brisk echo to a past long since forgotten and lost, intertwining elements of country and blues which pop purists of legendary imprints such as Sun may well remonstrate is your pristinely honed, brewed and casked rock-a-billy, this cotton field breezing honey shuffles in chugging and chuffing like a smoky steam engine deliciously festooned with some remarkably tasty steel guitar applications and some well heeled banjo braids whilst packing some neat 50’s styled hillbilly threads. That said nothing quite compares to the bitter sweet sting she applies to her tearfully choked rendition of Cake’s ‘Mexico’, all at once forlornly withered, mellow and humbling, this gently delivered porch lit slice of reflective daydreaming is tripped with the sweetest of sparsely prised corteges of deftly plucked fret work whose sole aim it seems is to have the hair prickling on the back of your neck and the heart slowed to the merest beat. A lump in the throat moment of aching beauty which unless the ears do deceive had us recalling the more intimately framed moments of a certain Sarah McLachlan. Will leave you in an inconsolable heap." - Losing Today
"Una de las grandes sorpresas de las últimas semanas. Apenas un EP en un pequeño sello de Sheffield ha bastado para descubrir a una nueva musa indie —parece que la protege Richard Hawley— que ya habÃa dejado muestras de su categorÃa capitaneando la banda Monkey Swallows the Universe. Y toda la culpa la tiene esa canción estrella, un hit rompedor con guitarras trepadoras que rodean y adornan la personal voz de Nat. También tienen su encanto los dos temas en esquema de demo y cómo lleva a su terreno el México de Cake." - 20minutos.es
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