"Rachel boasts the 'leap out feature', meliflous, tentatively epic"
Craig Mclean / Vox

"Rachel Finds some heart wrenching power in her voice, pushing it to a blazing climax. Capable of soul-baring, sensual ferocity."
Katatonic

"Sweet seductive music that slips into your psyche to tear it apart."
Alan Wright / The Factory

"Rachel flings back her head, opens her mouth and this voice unleashes itself in all its just controlled, terrifying beauty. You don't ever want it to stop."
Sarra Manning / Melody Maker

"A magnetic, transfixing stage prescence. The lady has everything - a totally individual sound and a personality that'll play havoc with adolescent hormones, whilst bewitching the business suits at radio stations who must be bowled over along the way. In concert all of this personality, rather sexuality, dominates centre stage like the innocent but all knowing eye of a technicoulour hurricane."
Steve Morris

"Rachel Mayfield is becoming one of the most important women in contempory music. Up there with Kate Bush, Polly Harvey and Sinead O Connor. She is a bruised yet strangely sensous and sexy women. Able to use her gender to get her point across. Refusing to settle into a style. Prefering to make mistakes and learn from them than play it safe. Avoiding trends, ensuring the music will be fresh original and listened to by real music lovers for years to come. A classic."
Andrew Field / Anthem

"One moment intensely serious, the next gleefully insane. A heady brew of power, politics, pleasure and personality all rolled into one."
Anoop Nayak / Red Brick

"Magicaly babetitious! Rumour has it that in terms of babeness it's no quater asked, no quater given."
Caren Myers / Melody Maker

"Rachel Mayfield's voice almost breaks with emotion. Infused with an unmistakable and exhilarating passion, which sends a shiver down the spine. The wave of emotion sent crashing over the audience is overwhelming. The obligatory, world weary music-wont-change-anything attitude begins to wilt in the glare of her breathtakingly impudent lines. It's quite difficult to be cynical about Rachel, she oozzes sincerity from every pore. She clearly has an immense ammount of faith in what she is doing and it's impossible not to be carried along by it all."
Making Waves


"The sensual realm of fantasy, the physical and emotional blend of human interaction."
Evening News

"Exciting, unpredictable and as dangerous as a Ten Legged Tyrannosaurus."
Samantha Steele / NME

"Rachel Mayfield's voice grabs you like nothing else. This girl is Liz Fraser, Bjork and Harriet Wheeler with attitude."
Frank Appel / Yorkshire Post


"What you've already heard about Delicious Monster is bollocks. They are not like the sugarcubes and seldom like the Sundays. Rachel has a big expressive voice that wriggles in and out of songs. There's this fabulous line in one song which goes 'I cant look for myself in you."
Steve Sutherland / NME

"An extraordinarily gifted young singer/songwriter. Rachel is possesed of an exquisitely wayward, multi-octave voice and has a delightful tendancy to wander off at peculiar tangents just when you least expect it. Something to do with the elavated having the confidence to embrace the excrable I shouldnt wonder. The divine Ms Mayfield could write a pamphlet on how to balance poignance and puissance. The blissful with the blizzardly. The saccharine with the savage."
Paul Lester

"Delicately savage, singer songwriter extraordinaire."
The Observer

"Rachel has a voice like a chocolate covered Harriet Wheeler left to melt on a radiator. Wears her songs like a particularly fetching hat. Can pin your heart to the wall with one note. Which can make ordering the next pint difficult. Snags the attention like a carybotic kitten dangling from your upper lip by one claw."
Caitlin Moran

"Mayfield's voice is to sigh for. Full of pure unforced beauty. You'll be lost as soon as she soars, effortlessly."
Cumbernauld News

"Seriously excellent and a criminal supply of first rate songs."
What's On

"A well developed creative imagination."
Time Out

"As life enhancing as been snogged by a complete stranger. Every track has the distilled essence of sassy Rachel Mayfield's wishful longing and wild abandonment. The album (Joie de Vivre) razored off my head and is a prized posession."
PI / University College London

"Everytime, the songs have warmth, power and feeling."
GRIP / The official paper of UMIST students union

"At the Reading Festival, Rachel weaved her tipsy way around the backstage somme wearing a thigh-high pair of soft suede boots and a bolero jacket with white fur hood and two pom poms on strings hanging from the the neck. And she never stopped laughing. She found the whole thing genuinely amusing and entertaining and, finally, turned a field full of mud into something approaching a 21st birthday party. And this delight in life comes across in her music."
Caitlin Moran / Melody Maker

"This is another tangle of impulses altogether. You'll spend the first couple of hours with 'Power Missy' trying to work out whether it's a tease or a threat and then, just when you can't decide whether she's all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant, it may dawn on you that PM is, in fact, f____ing scary."
Steve Sutherland / NME

"Gentle jangles careen into psychedelic guitars, snowflake vocals turn into furious howling bizzards. Oh, and Rachel's dress falls off. But a mere broken zip does not prevent this little missy from delivering a powerful performance. Tonight is a clear case of life imitating art. The further down her back the zip runs, the more tangible and at odds with the world is Rachel's vulnerability. Not only exposing her soul in her music but, unwittingly, her underwear as well."
Sam Stallard / NME

"A woman with so much to say for herself and her band that she could probably have filled an entire issue of NME with her enthusiastic ravings."
Johnny Cigarettes / NME