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  • Summary: Alan Kelly, Ian Carr, Roy Dodds and John McCusker contribute to the Scottish singer-songwriter's first album since 2009's Love Is The Way.
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  1. Feb 13, 2014
    80
    Reader’s own explanatory notes enrich these universal songs with a personal edge, completing a particularly satisfying package.
  2. Mojo
    Feb 13, 2014
    80
    It feels like a very personal and agreeably languid autobiography. [Mar 2014, p.93]
  3. Uncut
    Feb 13, 2014
    70
    Understated acoustic shuffles give the record a sense of the passing of time, as does the tender regret of "Snowflakes In The Sun." [Feb 2014, p.81]
  4. Feb 13, 2014
    60
    The 14 songs ooze energy and style and feature long-term collaborators such as Alan Kelly, Ian Carr, Roy Dodds and John McCusker.
  5. Q Magazine
    Feb 14, 2014
    60
    Warm acoustic folk is the dish of the day, with Reader occasionally dipping into chanson and Celtic tunes, never delivered in anything less than immaculate taste. [Mar 2014, p.119]
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