”This album grows on you with each listen and is a definite musos album. With definite echoes of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and the booze lashed, cigarette stinking romanticism of Shane MacGowan's lyrics, Mäkkelä takes a less trodden path and invites you on his journey in search for a 'Homeland'."
(Fatea Magazine, UK)

"[...]folk, jazz, world moves, and topical/timeless folk songs. [...] spirited intensity underneath all of these songs."
(folkworld.eu)

"Škoda blue and the black legged Jesus" is a cinematic Folk Noir album that makes its listeners want to ride into the sunset and leave all misery behind immediately. This is a road trip for your ears. And as a further gem it contains a Hüsker Dü cover (Diane)." 9/10 Mangoes (mangowave-magazine.com)