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The Sunday Times
The melodies fall over one another, one gem ambushing your head and heart before the next arrives to claim squatters’ rights.
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The Quietus
Broudie tries not to let depression overcome him, and won't allow trivial things like emotion stand in the way of fine pop. This leads to identikit tunes with affecting lyrics — nice enough, though it's only the tracks when the emotion is made explicit among the beautiful backing that the record reaches its undeniable peaks
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8.0
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The Guardian
This is gorgeous stuff though, straddling the divide between sombre and beautiful with an easy grace.
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Independent on Sunday
Attractive, well made, sincere, wistful and extremely well researched. Coming to a radio station near you soon.
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6.0
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The Times
Recent bereavements in Broudie’s world have shifted the emphasis. The bitter fritter of our time on this planet is, if you will, breaded with the crumbs of consolation.
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The Independent
A sort of hapless Northern fatalism delivered with a quintessentially English air of bewildered melancholy, and set to clean-cut, uplifting pop tunes whose Beatle-ish jollity so often belies the bitter aftertaste of the lyrics.
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PopMatters
Definitely has its charms, but after a long period without new music from Broudie, it’s not quite the return-to-form we’ve the right to expect
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