The album is pretty much the same – it won’t win any awards for creativity and probably won’t feature in too many year-end “best of” lists but it’s a jolly enough listen that boasts some fine moments.  Full text...

A mature but patchy offering teaming quirky pop with smooth electronica and some choral backing.  Full text...

The results are fairly decent for the most part, save for blunders like the mawkish ballad "This Endless Rain" and the saccharine, ickle-girly vocalising on "Blue Light Alarm".  Full text...

It warms up slowly, hitting its stride four tracks in with the baroque melancholia of This Endless Rain and redemptive chamber pop of Blue Light Alarm, and peaks right at the end with a small- hours epic called Elen, written with her old pal Gruff Rhys.  Full text...

Elation and introspection, lyrical flights and raucous outbursts do battle not merely throughout the album but within individual songs.  Full text...

Beautiful background music.  Full text...

It's near-perfect British folk-pop: dark and sultry with black clouds and sunshine around the corner in equal measure.  Full text...