★★★★★
Rose Cousins is a Canadian-born, Boston-based singer-songwriter whose latest full-length, We Have Made a Spark, is a collaboration with a number of Boston musicians. Impeccably recorded and performed, We Have Made a Spark benefits from the contributions of a number of talented people, including but not limited to Zachariah Hickman on upright bass and organ, Charlie Rose on pedal steel, banjo and dobro, and Laura Cortese on violin and backing vocals...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
Since leaving her job in the alumni office at Dalhousie University to pursue music in 2005, Rose Cousins has released two EPs and now a third full-length album. With each new project, the singer-songwriter with a voice as clear as crystal adds more musical collaborators to her roster. She was able to recruit Luke Doucet to produce her second album, The Send Off, and has played with such Canadian icons as Kathleen Edwards, Jenn Grant, Melissa McClelland and Old Man Luedecke...
- exclaim.ca
2012-03-06
★★★★★
There is not a lyric, note or instrument out of place on the dark third album by East Coast folk-pop singer/songwriter Rose Cousins. Funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign and recorded in Boston with a large group of collaborators, the 11 songs showcase Halifax-based Cousins at the top of her game. Throughout, she skilfully turns relationship sorrow into stirring art, and distills the complexity of fraught relationships into something true and relatable...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2012-02-23