by
Cold Specks
- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Release Date: May 22, 2012
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MojoJul 18, 2012It's difficult to make either narrative or poetic sense of, well, what she's on about. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012Spx's voice is a thing of wonder - rich, deep and stomach-tighteningly emotional. [Jun 2012, p.99]
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May 21, 2012If the focus on 'I Predict A Graceful Expulsion' is sharp then its scope is overly broad, focusing in on vague sentiments that leave you fond, but never in love.
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May 21, 2012Holland and Winter Solstice are particularly fine. But [the album] is also very much fixed in one place, and at one pace, and doesn't quite reach the consistent transcendence it aspires to
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May 21, 2012The arrangements here, courtesy of PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis, seek to relocate Spx in too elegant a vein, making her sound less singular and more assimilable. It is a shame.