"The music was unsettling, but that wasn’t a bad thing. It was anxiety-inducing at times, but a full-body reaction to music is usually the sign of something worth hearing. Amy Brandon played a standard guitar with, what was that, a scrub brush? And suddenly she transported us to an icy, barren, electro-alien planet.  It was strange. It was incomprehensible. It was so completely and utterly brand new to my ears.

— Annie Corrigan for Sound Symposium, 2018

"Otherworldly and meditative ... one wonders whether geography of the coastal North Atlantic may have influenced Brandon in her creative orchestration of this clashing of bleakness with beauty ... [her] compositions succeed, as all excellent music does, in conjuring a palpable and astonishing mood."

— Alan Fark for Minor 7th, 2017

"The second highlight of the night came from Amy Brandon. Her 3 Portraits for Orchestra is a sonic roller coaster through tension and release. The calm of a low string drone spreads into a web of anxiety through strenuous groans before resolving into a lustrous sound bath. With stabs of solo cello spurring way for gut-wrenching and horrific swells, Brandon’s timbral palate could humble even seasoned composers .."

— Sarah Jo Kirsch for Critipeg, 2019

“... a quietly singular figure ... it’s nearly impossible to think of any cohabitants of her very particular universe ... Brandon’s phrasing is as nimble as it is Delphic, tracing uneven coils that swiftly fall inward ... the harmonic fabric is peculiar, skillfully woven from disparate stray fibres. Scavenger is strongest and most magical when Brandon’s enigmatic personality comes through without any adulteration ... it disorients its audience, surreptitiously enveloping the listener in rich, unfamiliar surroundings."

— Nick Storring for Musicworks, Fall 2016