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  • Summary: The latest project from Luke Haines is a collaboration with Cathal Coughlan and Andrew Mueller on an album about a fictional history of the British Isles.
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  1. It's deeply engrossing and rings resoundingly with cultural and historical truth.
  2. Q Magazine
    Dec 12, 2012
    60
    Its pleasures lie almost entirely in the storytelling, bolstered by Mueler's between-songs narration. [Dec 2012, p.110]
  3. Dec 12, 2012
    60
    On The North Sea Scrolls, Haines stays true to his own brand of dark, surreal mystification and harnesses two other individual talents to create something that some will find highly satisfactory.
  4. Uncut
    Dec 12, 2012
    30
    An in-joke gone horribly wrong. [Jan 2013, p.80]