JAZZ PODIUM 9/2007
"Milla Kay’s debut album Out of Place (Rhythm Attack/Edel Contraire) sounds amazingly mature. Listening to it one can feel the chemistry of big productions." [...]



AUDIO Klang-Tipp 9/2007
"Respect: Since Sade it has been long since somebody caressed our ears sensuously and smoothly like this. Even the sound quality of this inspiring, fascinating debut album reaches an audiophile level. Caution: addictive!"



STERN CD-Tipp 8/2007
"Why? Because this woman from Hamburg managed to produce a pop-album with substance."



MEIN PLATTENFREUND 9/2007
[...] “This album is brought to life by a fantastic band – aside from the voice and the nine self-written songs! [...] Milla Kay recorded an excellent and homogenous album and deserves high respect.”



GITARRE & BASS 9/2007
[...] "Relaxed, easy, and always a little rough – now that’s how this kind of crossover-pop is fun again!"



JAZZ THING 10/2007
[...] "Between radio-compatible pop and freshly arranged jazz-standards. [...] Milla Kay succeeded in producing a coherent and lively debut album with Out of Place."



ELLE 9/2007
"Nobody since Sade managed to merge jazz, latin, and soul so elegantly into one super-sensual sound. This newcomer from Hamburg succeeds in a similarly infatuating seduction with a lot of voice, charm and a high level. Inspiring and unexpected."



GIG 10/2007
[...] "Strange melody lines and shady atmospheres provide pleasant irritations and a sound that uses well-known stylistic devices but goes new ways."



LOOP MAGAZIN 9/2007
[...] "Poles alone is worth listening to a thousand times! [...] Sigh and love it."

HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT 12/2008
[...] „She's not harmless, she likes to play. The guitar, sometimes a mini xylophone. But first and foremost she wants to wrap the audience around her proverbial little finger. „Cry me a river“? Respect, you really have to dare restyle that classic this way.“ [...]



KIELER NACHRICHTEN 07/2008
[...] "The native of Kiel also succeeds in playing a little stroke of genius by singing Elvis's hit "Falling in Love" as a duet with a bossa related guitar (Hauke Kliem). The rosy-caustic vocal-complexion of Astrud Gilberto shows through just as much as a rebellious Björk in the electronic playing of "Fly me to the Moon" or the intended dip in alternate hot and cold water of ""Poles"." [...]



KIELER NACHRICHTEN 9/2007
[...] "Milla Kay starts in Angie’s Nightclub above Schmidts Tivoli where the festival ended in 2006 and transfers this small stage with its 60s-lampshade-ambience into one of the most exciting cells at the Reeperbahn event. The blonde singer from Hamburg who recorded her debut-album Out of Place in her hometown drifts coolly between pop, jazz, bossa, a hint of country, and a bite of soul. She connects the space between Getz and Björk, using her voice that reminds of Sade Adu and her wide open arms, lets loops shimmer and electronica softly do its job." [...]



AUGSBURGER ALLGEMEINE 11/2007
"A small sensation were Milla Kay and her band. The top-newcomer and her musicians from Hamburg presented one of the most remarkable stylistic balancing acts of current German jazz: latin-bossa-pop meets lounge-jazz, country, and blues – enriched and lightened by well-chosen, engaging effects. An event at "Kult-Hotel."



MINDENER TAGEBLATT 10/2007
[...] "Notably different are the sounds of an instrument that seemingly has a well-known sound-range. One has to listen twice to assign the striking riffs to an acoustic guitar that cross relaxed bossa-nova-sounds in the tune "Poles". And the use of electronic ingredients and the special sound of the instruments turns Kurt Weill’s "Speak Low" into a fascinatingly exciting tune that is different enough from the original to be fresh and distinctively different. Just like Paul Simon’s "Late in the Evening" that Milla Kay serves the enthusiastically clapping listeners in the encore."