The first review of England Green & England Grey and it’s a beauty:
“This collection of songs is beautiful; fascinatingly lovely and utterly captivating.
….music that explodes into a thousand pretty flowers to seduce you, and then pricks you all over with tiny thorns to remind you that where there is beauty there is also pain.
This album is an important one; for his careful political expression alone, we should hold this artist in high esteem.
…. this is social philosophy as it should be: politics expressed with love and emotion
……the lyrics are so well chosen that, even when you’ve listened a dozen times and begin to think that you know this song now, they continue to unfurl themselves, petal by petal, to reveal nuances of narrative and depths of colour that keep on surprising you. The storytelling is superb……
It has a pastoral quality too; ( but for me it) [that] evokes the jewel-coloured, shadowy and torn landscapes of William Blake and Samuel Palmer, full of religious dread and political turbulence.”
FULL REVIEW by Tamsin Rosewell:
