Sarah McQuaid, Hotpress, Vol. 26, Issue 18
Beautifully effortless sean-nós singing here from Inishere native and TCD graduate Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, who's confident enough in her voice to let it do its thing gently, without strident belting or stylistic tics. She's got a lovely way of speaking, too: on the spine-tingling Oileán na Teiscinne, her quiet incantation of the words over a blend of guitar and gurgling wave sounds manages to transcend any suggestion of tweeness or cliché. Máire Breatnach's production is flawless and the accompanying musicians are superb, including such stalwarts as Mary Bergin, Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh - not to mention Breatnach herself.

Siobhán Long, The Ticket, Irish Times, 12/09/02
The emergence of talented women musicians in a male-dominated (recording) tradition must surely be one of the great pleasures of recent years. Inis Oírr singer Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola is a performer whose vocal chords and tympanic membranes are as finely tuned as a taut spring. An Raicín Álainn/The Beautiful Comb is a glorious tincture of of her catholic repertoire, many of her songs borrowed from her own island tradition, and none more pristine than Inis Oírr in Inis Oírr, it's dusky corners inhabited by producer Máire Breatnach's lonesome viola and Mary Bergin's low whistle. Ní Chonaola's breathy vocals could easily wallow in Céline Dion territory, wringing every last drop of emotion from this immaculate collection, but she subscribes with aplomb to a minimalism that so becomes her.

John Creedon, RTÉ Radio 1
"I have fallen in love with the beauty of this young woman’s voice."

Philip King, Hummingbird Records
"Like all great singers she had the music from the cradle, singing before she could walk. Young Lasairfhíona has brought sean-nós into the 21st Century."

Tom Keller, www.folkworld.de

“She exhibits a beautiful earthy voice, conjuring up images of the place and magic spell of the Irish language.”

Sarah Caden, Sunday Independent

“On her CD, An Raicín Álainn (“The Beautiful Comb”), her style is conventionally sean-nós and yet it has a lightness you could call modern, a certain smile to it that speaks of pleasure in both her talent and the tradition.”

Gabriel Rosenstock
"Lasairfhíona creates many different moods in these songs: playful, beguiling, mournful, seductive, innocent, direct, oblique. But there's something else here, something indefinable... a blessing ... like a word that was lost, its sound and meaning restored to us again."