‘Pop music hadn’t seen anything like it since the heyday of Cat Stevens’Rolling Stone
‘Whatever
the overall meaning of a song, barely a minute goes by without an
arresting image or couplet snagging one's attention’ ★★★★★The
Independent
‘More closely resembles the lush, gold-toned singer
songwriter records of the late 60s and early 70s – Astral Weeks, Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road’ Pitchfork
‘Beam comes across as a latterday
prophet, casting his gentle eye over capitalist, warmongering western
society with sorrow and kindness’★★★★Guardian