"The Oregon Folkie's Seventh Album Contains Mellow Pleasures for Patient Listeners.", "A melancholy meditation on happiness and delicate transience....JULY FLAME is carefully composed, ever-deepening, glinting and glowing in new ways each time it's played...", "Veirs sends us on hikes through dreamy landscapes...casting minimal instrumentation in glistening arrangements to captivate the melancholy imagination." -- Grade: A-