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Mar 24, 2014It is enlightening, wry and devastating, but most of all, it's life-affirming.
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Mar 24, 2014With its singalong choruses and eminent likeability, New Gods is the kind of album that will only add to his reputation as being one of Scotland's finest.
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MojoMar 21, 2014Sardonic, wistful, always finely wrought songs. [Apr 2014, p.98]
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Mar 21, 2014New Gods is an unusually good album.
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Mar 21, 2014On New Gods there’s a sense of logical progression, an aim of expression that might have been missing from some of his earlier work.
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Mar 21, 2014It is at once assured and endearingly self deprecating. It has an open hearted appeal that just might make Withered Hand a household name.
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Mar 28, 2014It should establish Willson as not just an artist to watch, but to eagerly want more from.
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Mar 21, 2014Although on the surface this sophomore record is a less vulnerable effort than his acclaimed debut, if the listener scratches even a little below the up-tempo melodies they will discover the same shambolic protagonist, struggling with the strife of everyday life which they fell in love.
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Mar 24, 2014Its varied tones and moods settle into an exciting, vivid bigger picture and represent a clearer collection of Wilson's intelligent lyrical portraits and shifting stylistic muses.
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Mar 21, 2014New Gods is endlessly lovable stuff.
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Jun 9, 2014There is a certain degree of sameness to the record that undermines the band’s strengths somewhat, but there are plenty of good moments too.
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UncutApr 2, 2014The homogenous production gets bland real quick, meaning, that, ultimately, it' shard to care either way about it. [May 2014, p.83]
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Mar 21, 2014Though the writing is clever and at times funny, the whininess and constant soul-searching shuts the audience out, and anyone deciding to stay is bludgeoned again and again with his relentless wet sentimentality.