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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the British singer-songwriter
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  1. Mojo
    Oct 31, 2016
    100
    His singing has improved beyond recognition and, while rooted very much in the vintage storytelling values of the folk tradition, Upcetera is very much a landmark album for our times. [Dec 2016, p.95]
  2. Oct 31, 2016
    80
    This sixth album is well judged, treating eight old songs to varied arrangements and adding a brace of originals.
  3. Oct 31, 2016
    60
    With his first solo album in four years, he concentrates on narrative folk ballads that are transformed by bold string and brass arrangements, with Moray adding everything from guitars to vibraphone. It works remarkable well, for the most part.
  4. Oct 31, 2016
    60
    Clean, sophisticated and with nary a bushy beard in sight, it turns raditional ballads into something that could be chart-friendly today, sitting them alongside a couple of self-penned numbers.