Country/Region of ManufactureEngland
ReviewsRanked #28 in Nme's "Top 50 Albums of the Year"., 4 stars out of 5 - "...A celebration of human frailty and hope that challenges The Flaming Lips' SOFT BULLETIN and Mercury Rev's DESERTER'S SONGS for breadth of palette, imagination and emotional impact...", 3 stars out of 5 - "...An orgy of space-rock guitar worship....achieving the intense sound their songs deserve: intense boy-girl vocals, psychedelic guitar power, rainy-day sprinkles of piano and strings...", "The Hamilton four-piece’s third album is packed with grand orchestral epics. They left the template for 'indie' looking redundant.", 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...Crushing....it represents a treasure of a band stepping from the shadows, tossing its tatty indie rags aside and charging at success, engine stoked to bursting. Last stop: your gut.", "...Weaving their spell in the fast lane while ducking rumbling 18-wheelers of noise, Alun Woodward and Emma Pollock swap vocal leads...as effortlessly as Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto...", Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000"., 6 out of 10 - "...The album undoubtedly moves...as it impresses...all swooping cellos, dulcimers, clarinets, flugelhorns, vibraphones...", "...Their third and best album....this excellent and fully realized album lifts the Delgados into a league all their own.", "...It's bold, ambitious and skillfully wrought. The songs...have beautiful lyrics, surprising arrangements and unshakeable melodies....This is a robust record full of great ideas and stirring songs...", 4 out of 5 - "...Pretty much every song here is arena-sized...but the songs themselves retain the spirited vigor of the basement....The album is the best of both worlds, and in turn one of the best albums of the year."