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UncutFeb 5, 2015It's yet another display of excellence from an artist in consummate control of his art. [Feb 2015, p.82]
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Feb 5, 2015Roberts' characteristic style is Scottish without cliché, and his marriage of old and new stands out in an oversaturated, strummy-guitar field of singer-songwriters as a gorgeous album from beginning to end.
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The WireMay 22, 2015This is the first music that feels genuinely post-referendum. [Jan 2015, p.68]
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MojoFeb 5, 2015These self-penned songs feel so timelessly authentic they might have been dredged from the deep well of traditional British Isles song from which Roberts regularly sips. [Feb 2015, p.95]
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Feb 5, 2015His complexity comes through more clearly than ever on Alasdair Roberts, his most stripped-down solo side in years.
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Feb 5, 2015Roberts’ latest work is full of sonic space and warmth: an intimate and classically manifested set of tracks in which his melodic arpeggio fingerwork on the guitar is reflected by a soft and expressive voice.
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Feb 5, 2015Alasdair Roberts is not quite the equal of Spoils in terms of songwriting and is hardly as colourful as A Wonder Working Stone, but it is perhaps his most relaxed and effortless album to date.
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Feb 5, 2015For the casual listener, his music may be a bit heady and hard to follow, but for fans willing to be challenged, Roberts has delivered yet another excellent release.
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Feb 5, 2015Roberts’ songs here are quieter and simpler, and his language less ornate. And while all of Roberts’ music, even at its most traditional, has sounded unique and intimate it has seldom sounded this personal.
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Q MagazineFeb 5, 2015Roberts inhabits this work so entirely you can't really imagine him trudging through the same grey world as the rest of us. [Mar 2015, p.114]
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Feb 5, 2015By turns droll, pungent and lovely, it deserves more than a lo-fi production.