Stumbling around Google I found this great write-up from Dogrando:

https://dogrando.net/2023/09/09/v-a-ballads-of-seduction-fertility-and-ritual-slaughter/

My favorite quote is “I would argue that a good cover version needs to do two things. Of course, it must sound good on its own terms. But it should also make you notice things you’d not heard in the original. This collection has an astonishingly high hit-rate on both counts.“

Seems the album also made their end of year list, the first compilation to do so!