It’s hard, if not impossible, to avoid the early Neko Case comparisons. There’s a kind of sullen country vibe that resembles Seattle’s favorite red-headed export. Marvel doesn’t have Case’s over-the-top pipes, but she’s better at atmospherics: Her songs are tiny, sad stories, beautifully told with an aching heart. If you can listen to Marvel and not get that genuinely sad, old-school country-music hurt in your gut, there’s something wrong with you.

- Paul Constant, The Stranger

Why we love her: Her acoustic country is perfect back porch listening.

- Seattle Magazine

“Then there’s Marvel’s voice, elusive as Hope Sandoval’s but possessing some of Kendra Smith’s wearied mystique”.

- The Oregonian

She doesn’t so much “go country” as she does wander down dusty back roads seeing where the stories in her head lead her. The end result is a country-tinged noir pop, the tales of a woman too world-wise to be the ingenue and too hopeful and modest to be the diva.

- sepiachord.com

Zera Marvel. She’s drifting acoustic and dark. There are gothic turns in her stoic stance and she shades country into night.

- Trent Moorman, The Stranger

Zera Marvel has finished her first solo album titled, “Birds & Bullets Fly”. The recording features her enchanting, sometimes low timbered, dusky voice audiences have come to love so much from her Tagging Satellite days.

- Radio Free Seattle