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2003, Compiled by Vix Hq
"helium-affected whisper" — Rupert Howe (VOX, Oct '91)
"wailing mesmerically like an Islamic Stevie Nicks" — Simon Price (MM, Nov 21 '92)
"Alison's unearthly vocal technique - - - invariably described as a baby in a toolbox, a foetal murmur, Clare Gorgan after 20 years in a padded cell, Minnie Mouse on helium, etc" — Simon Price (MM, Nov '92)
"Alison's wisp of a voice curls like smoke tendrils after a hand's passed through it" — Jon Selzer's review of the "Adrift" EP (MM, March 20 '93)
"[Alison's voice] always reminds me of the ghost of a child locked away in the attic of a derelict mansion, or maybe even the suppressed wail of the lost child locked away in all of our subconsciousnesses [sic]" — David Stubbs reviews "Forever" (MM, May 1 '93)
"she mashes up words into a purŽe and transforms breathing into a microphone into an art" — Dele Fadele (NME, May 1 '93)
"tortured tonsils" — Danny Frost's "Forever" review (NME, May 1 '93)
"the first time she sang in the garage a neighbour called the police. He honestly thought someone was being killed" — Stud Brothers (MM, May 8 '93)
"glacial vocals" — Mark Sutherland (Lime Lizard, June '93)
"Alison still keens and whispers as if she's just seen the sun being snuffed out" — Caitlin Moran reviews "Remixes" (MM, Aug 7 '93)
"baby-soft ululations" — Holly Barringer (MM, Sept 18 '93)
"Alison Shaw, the girl with the golden gurgle" — Ian Fortnam (NME, Nov 20 '93)
"squeaky toy", "girl-infant-possessed-by-a-demon vocals" — Angela Lewis reviews "Shining Road" (NME, Aug 20 '94)
"baby ghost vocals" — Stud Brothers (MM, Sept 17 '94)
"baby-in-a-bubble voice" — Holly Hernandez (MM, Sept 17 '94)
"babytalk vocals" — Mark Sutherland (NME, Sept 17 '94)
"ice-cream-and-jelly-hungry toddler" — Tom Doyle ('94)
"twisted-toddler-in-the-cellar vocal" — Sharon O'Connell (NME, Jan 4 '97)
"infant on acid" — unknown (I read it somewhere, but forgot when and where
"a baby crying in a toolbox" — unknown MM reader
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