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One of the freshest new voices in Canadian folk music. The dozen original songs comprising At Your Door are some of the sweetest pastoral songs heard in recent years
- Kitchener Waterloo Record
...a strong, literate writer who's obviously put in her woodshedding time. Narrative, love song or lighthearted ode to spring, she deserves to be better known.
- The Province
Fine folk of the first order for Israeli-born and B.C.-raised Yael Wand, a singer-songstress whose simple words and music will melt away the last vestiges of a too-long winter. Wand casts a spell...
- Steve Guimond, the Hour, Montreal
Wand has emerged as a songwriter of uncommon skill whose resplendent homespun roots musings span the distance from the British Isles to the Appalachian hills and beyond. Not since Kate Rusby surfaced across the pond in the late '90s to galvanize and tastefully transform the purity of traditional folk has an artist so thoroughly and convincingly stoked the fire of the time-honoured form. By turns honey sweet, forlorn and jubilant, Wand's lush 2006 sophomore effort At Your Door is a lean and literate meditation on life's ever-changing seasons...
- OttawaExpress
It's hard not to be enchanted by the sepia tones of this West Coast singing / songwriting siren. A pretty voice singing pretty songs that avoid both pretense and cliche, Wand casts an inescapable spell. But it's when she turns to a more mischievously jazzy sound to sing about spring or moonshine that you really start to question why you are in a crowded train car or bus, and not some bucolic Birkenstock hideaway, far from the city.
- Metro Ottawa
Yael Wand's raw, just-a-mountain-girl-with-a-guitar mojo makes her sophomore CD as unique and purdy as the wildflowers (and dead birds) she's keen on singing about.
- CalgaryHerald
With confidence, Wand uses her stunning vocals to effortlessly pull off jazz, blues and folk numbers in major and minor keys.
- The Omega, Thompson Rivers University Independent Student Newspaper
At Your Door is as much a showcase for her fine vocal talent as it is for her beguiling lyrics, a charismatic folk-jazz album that hugs the listener and won't let go as it transcends the boundaries between folk, jazz, and worldly influences ...an album of finely crafted songs.
- John Roman, Penguin Eggs
Not just intelligent lyrics, but also tasteful, pleasing melodies and a few of these songs deserve to become hits... without doubt a jewel...Sublime!
- Moors Magazine, Holland