DotM: Track of the Year
Nightshift Magazine 2019: Track of the Year
"Even amid the drama, grief, passion, longing, militant determination and poetic wonder of Death of the Maiden’s album ‘The Girl With the Secret Fire’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’ stood above and apart: the band’s sparse music a delicacy stripped right back to just acoustic guitar, violin and Tamara Parsons-Baker’s voice, packed with a heart full of soul, and a sad, sad story to tell. So sad in fact the band couldn’t play it live. An absolutely devastating, and devastatingly beautiful, song. Something so simple shouldn’t be so powerful. Musically, it’s a piece of magic”
“Death of Maiden’s debut single `Soldier’ opened the door on the band’s dark, emotional intensity, but `Horses’ galloped through in its wake and best revealed Death of the Maiden’s imperious presence”