Nightlife Magazine
"A stormy Sunday afternoon concoction of folk, country, and pop that'll get your heart thinking and yearning. Arrivals and Departures is a dashing DIY debut [...] Pea layers his straight-up takes and tales with multi-instrumentalists who create new worlds around organs, glockenspiels, flutes, strings and horns. A mighty impressive first album..."

Chartattack
"Arrivals and Departures is a delicate, earnest and addictive collection of folk-rock ditties [...] Jay Pea aims to comfort and relax even the weariest airport-bound vagabond with his soothing but solid Sufjan Stevens-ish inflection and unaffected, effortless lyrics [...] Highly enjoyable"

CBC Radio
Catherine Pogonat
"One of the best albums made in Montreal this year!"

McGill Tribune
"The college crowd will crush on the transient, clever music that comprises Arrivals and Departures. [...] Indie-folk flavours bring to mind the likes of Pavement, The Inbreds and Neil Young. Musically fresh yet warmly familiar and lyrically bittersweet."

Bang Bang
"Somewhere between Howie Beck and Ron Sexsmith, between Nashville and Graceland…dreamy and endearing."

CKUT FM
Underground Sounds
"The next big thing!"

Regina Leader-Post
"Jay Pea has an appeal that transcends his style. [...] Lyrics are definitely solid, but ultimately his strength is the atmosphere he creates, leaving the listener relaxed and slightly wistful"

London Free Press
"These 13 tracks sound remarkably accomplished for a first-timer [...], a memorably engaging document"

Indie Launchpad
"A great album [...] Just another amazing example of the amazing talent in Canada [...] very much in the mould of Tim Buckley and Leonard Cohen the late 60's and early 70's era"

The Muse
"Very good [...], these songs are catchy and emotionally very touching"