“Listening to Squalloscope is like having your future adult self gently explain with no sugarcoating to your inner child that life is wonderful and heartbreaking and difficult and exhilarating and all the things that make life living, and that it’s okay to be happy and it’s okay to be heartbroken and it’s okay to be absolutely furious, and that we’ll probably feel all of those feelings in this weird complicated human life because that’s what makes life so goddamn special.”

“It gives me a feeling I’ve never gotten from an album before, like my cooler big sister has let me into her room to talk to me about things. It’s so comforting and wise and funny and unabashedly strange in certain ways. It makes me feel braver.”

“Nicht nur textlich ist „Exoskeletons for Children“ wunderschön und ergreifend, in seiner Offenheit stellenweise kaum zu ertragen. Die Ein-Frau-Band kreiert Songs die berühren, aufwühlen, den Hörer gleichermaßen traurig und fröhlich zurücklassen. Kohlweis ist mit ihrem zweiten Album als Squalloscope ein musikalisches Meisterstück gelungen.”

“I spent weeks trying to pick a favourite track because every single lyric is so good that they make me want to shed my skin like a snake. I love all of them. The album as a whole sounds like the world’s soft invisible underside.”

“Like a soft duck wing holding a rocket launcher...It’s devastating. In a sweet way.”

“Anna Kohlweis has a knack of making her feminist future folk sound playful, undogmatic and full of empathy. While others sit on high horses she prefers to sit on a table, guitar in hand, surrounded by all her gadgets, bubbling over with melodies. wisdom, and human warmth.”

“The bulb of an existential flashlight shining on all the small moments to pay attention to.”

“Exoskeletons For Children“ ist ein Meisterwerk. Die Songs nehmen einen mit, sind perfekt bis ins kleinste Detail produziert, die Vocal-Arrangements ließen Kate Bush vor Neid erblassen. Ihre unaufgeregte Stimme trägt die Tracks, die fallweise Assoziationen mit Fever Ray, Björk oder auch Massive Attack hervorrufen. „Pando“, „Turmoil And Wonder“, das melancholische „All Caps“, der Gospel von „Nocturnal“ – schöner kann elektronischer Indiepop nicht sein.”