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  • Summary: The second full-length solo studio release for the Scottish singer-songwriter is the second of a planned trilogy of albums about Scotland's Orkney Islands.
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  1. Jun 17, 2019
    90
    More restless than Solan Goose, Sule Skerry is always on the move, constantly changing but all the more exciting and compelling for it.
  2. May 28, 2019
    80
    Sule Skerry is a hymn to the sea, and it certainly feels that way in places: there’s a gentle ebb and flow to its ambient pieces which rarely threaten storm’s break, save perhaps the more urgent arpeggios of ‘Lump O’ Sea’.
  3. Uncut
    May 28, 2019
    80
    Placid moments abound. ... But "Spoot Ebb's" syncopated, Penguin Cafe rhythms indicate choppier waters, and "Flattie," introduce by poet Will Burns, hints at dark, incoming clouds. [Jun 2019, p.27]
  4. Q Magazine
    May 28, 2019
    60
    It makes for a meditative, transportive listening experience, exemplified best on the elegiac piano and swelling strings of opener Haar. [Jul 2019, p.109]
  5. Mojo
    May 28, 2019
    60
    Sule Skerry is partly programme music, partly good old-fashioned concept album. His approach feel rather literal at times. [Jun 2019, p.95]
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