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Williams is a singer-songwriter who has been, regrettably, tagged as a folkie. Truth to tell, her gifts are not limited to any such narrow definition, and this compellingly atmospheric collection of nine songs based on Sylvia Plath’s claustrophobic, fictionalised autobiography The Bell Jar (1963) should help free her of stylistic stereotyping. Williams brilliantly captures the suffocating ambience of the book, and never resorts to the cliches so common in traditional folk. From the spooky celestial electronics in Electric, to her forensic dissection of sexual relationships in Tango With Marco, Hypoxia delivers music which is as chilling as it is beautiful.
(Johnny Black, HiFi News, 2015)