
It's funny, you really can hear so much of the Delgados in this. Given that, after Emma Pollock's solo album last year, this is the product of the other half of that split, that's no surprise of course, but as a fan of the Delgados it is quite strange to hear so much of their sound in something that is in many ways rather different. Looking at the respective solo work and then back at the Delgados themselves it seems mean to say, but the removal of Pollock's earnest piano balladry has done this music no harm at [...]