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"Genuine talent...Sage has a knack for writing melodies that will break your heart without makingyou feel manipulated in the process... Where there's poignancy there's also subtlety, unforced passion and knowing observation" RollingStone.com
"...rich vocals, sparkling piano and yearning poetry" Time Out New York
"Smart, piano-driven songs that forge a resonant mixture of pop, folk and jazz, with a vocal delivery that conveys stark and yearning emotion." CMJ
"Sexy, self possessed and impressive. This piano-playing artist's songs are both personal and socio-political... Sage has earned a place as a performer to be taken seriously, a force to be reckoned with." Performing Songwriter
"New York based singer, songwriter and pianist Rachel Sage edges ever more strongly away from the folk tag and toward piano pop. Her songs are a-whirl with light and emotions tinged with reality's frosty bite. Even when Sage's mellifluous voice reveals deeper and darker hues, (it) has vibrancy and beauty." Boston Herald
"a muscular and hugely talented pop songwriter" Uncut (UK)
"Inspired by…Elvis Costello, and backed by brilliant East Village friends of Rufus, Antony and such, Sage hits somewhere between the bed-sit and the cellarful of noise and it does you good." MOJO (UK)
"Rachael Sage, the self taught pianist (who) specializes in moody folk pop" L.A. Times
"Sage (is) the Jewish Norah Jones" Washington Jewish Week
"Dexterous and haunting work, scored with dark emotional hues, rich chromatic chordings and surprising, adventurous changes. Musically sophisticated and accomplished work...standing tall next to any and all contemporary competition" Philadelphia Daily News
"Rachael Sage is a veritable one-woman unstoppable force...and she puts her heart and mind into all facets of her work from recording to touring" Amplifier
"lovely and literate...folk-pop-rock, socially aware and eclectic" The Village Voice
"a deeply talented artist...with a uniquely rebellious style as quirky as it is passionate" Keyboard
"haunting, passionate...This is Sage the storyteller in her prime - and folk at its finest. Like Sage, The Blistering Sun is a Renaissance work of music and poetry" Venus
"Pop music isn’t crafted as expertly as this anymore and Sage is the stitch between the great rock and pop traditions of the past and what those traditions have wrought – albeit almost invisibly – in the hypermodern world of the present." Billboard.com