There's hardly a track here lacking some element of interest.  Full text...

Ed Harcourt's fifth album in six years is streets ahead of anything he has done before.  Full text...

With every album release he's heading closer towards the title of national treasure and The Beautiful Lie pushes him ever nearer to that well deserved title.  Full text...

The wonderfully woozy Late Night Partner is Harcourt at his broken-hearted best, but he loses focus on this overlong, under-achieving album.  Full text...

This is Harcourt's fifth, and his best, with hardly a weak spot among its 15 tracks.  Full text...

Half ballad half eccentric beast 'The Beautiful Lie' is just distinctive enough to step out of the singer songwriter mist.   Full text...

Like Adams, the melancholic soaked songs may not be to everyone's taste, but he's an artist who's got a lot to say, as well as an ability to make you listen.  Full text...

For an album dealing so strongly with love and despair - a topic which surely requires the songwriter to engage his listener - our host seems a little distant, leaving his audience unaffected a little too often, and as an unfortunate result this album may find itself lost all too easily amongst his other offerings.  Full text...

No doubt some fans will be pleased with this “baring of his soul” and the track Late Night Partner achieves a beautiful lullaby sound, but they would probably rather have seen a more aggressive demonstration of Harcourt’s plentiful talent.  Full text...

Sadly, "The Beautiful Lie" feels like an exercise in the one upmanship of misery.  Full text...