"Born of a natural crossover between Julie Fowlis, her Irish fiddle-playing husband Éamonn Doorley, his Danú colleague Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and guitarist Ross Martin, Dual reunites the respective Gaelic traditions of Scotland and Ireland in warm and natural fashion. As her astonishing success over the last couple of years has comprehensively proved, Fowlis has an innate ability to make her ancient songs of the Western Isles seem more like old friends than alien creatures. There are also amazing parallels between Julie and Muireann, who's not only the same age with a comparable vocal style, but shares an uncannily similar background being raised on a remote island speaking a language few on the mainland understand. That the islands are far apart adds to the wonder of a project that has all the relaxed intimacy of a bunch of friends sitting round a fireside swapping songs and tunes in the old style"