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Mar 9, 2015While it's still shrouded in the frontman's down-in-the-mouth moodiness, its slinking rhythms offer the album's most striking and effective contrast between light and dark.
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Mar 3, 2015The exploratory attitude present throughout Picture You's entire running time gives The Amazing an expanded, three-dimensional appeal.
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Feb 20, 2015It's taken awhile for that to happen, but on Picture You, the Amazing have completely come into their own.
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Feb 18, 2015It’s an album too solid to float away and, at its finest moments, too lasting to fade.
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Feb 18, 2015Picture You is most certainly amongst 2015's most remarkable releases. Drink it in, and be careful not to judge it too soon.
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Feb 18, 2015shed. It’s beautiful, intense, occasionally relaxing but most of all challenging music that borrows from a myriad of influences and never feels derivative.
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Feb 17, 2015The end result is a record that reverently draws from a dazzling array of past masters only to short-circuit critical capacity.
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Feb 12, 2015On Picture You, The Amazing incorporates traces of psychedelic rock, ’60s pop, and even twee, mostly in the soft-spoken, accented vocals of lead singer Christoffer Gunrup. If that all sounds like chaos, it isn’t. The Amazing has a plan, and they’re rewarded for following it to its furthest conclusion.
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Feb 11, 2015Picture You succeeds in combining influences from a variety of genres to make an end result that’s lush and timeless.
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UncutFeb 11, 2015Preposterous on first listen, more utterly beguiling with each repeat. [Mar 2015, p.71]