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May 23, 2012Each track seamlessly flows into the next, making the album kind of just one long song about transitive early age....It's beautiful.
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MagnetJun 19, 2012That Vol.1 can capture that energy and enthusiasm of the [excellent] live show, the youthful vigor that prevents it from going into the realm of self-indulgent fogey prog pretty much guarantees we'll be following their career until they're old men. [No.88 p.60]
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May 24, 2012What we get is truly stellar introspection from a young adult on the verge of something big.
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May 23, 2012This is original music that has essentially created its own niche and perfected it.
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May 23, 2012The hooks often lack a singular focus, and there's a significant amount of fun to be had while working in a studio that's better off left on the cutting room floor.
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May 23, 2012Occasionally it's beautiful--the acoustic breakdown in 'Thoughts' is unexpectedly sublime--and often beguiling.
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May 23, 2012Vol. 1's heavier layers of glimmering guitar, celestial synths, and twinkling percussion flourishes serve more to create distance between Caulfield and the listener than convey that earlier intimacy in a new way.
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May 25, 2012Caulfield continues to showcase some seriously well-crafted shifts between proggy meandering movements and pop hooks.
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MojoJun 26, 2012With no appealing tunes or choruses to hang his hat on, Caufield's limp, blank vocals founder. [Jul 2012, p.88]