"Sproatly Smith hail from the rural county of Weirdshire, somewhere in imaginary England. A place where time is fluid and landmarks on the musical landscape tend to move about unexpectedly ... The Smith family are a friendly bunch of natives, whose siren singing beguiles over dexterous and expressive guitar picking, glockenspiel plinky-plonking, calliope whistling, wordless chanting, musical sawing and vintage synthewooshing ... In truth, "11:59" is a stop-gap release, comprised of tracks that have previously appeared on compilations (...) alongside some new recordings. Still, there's more fun to be had from a Sproatly Smith bits-and-bobs album than most folks' records, and with original new material like "Scapa Flow", Sproatly Smith proves they're much more than just skilled collagers of found sounds and bygone eras"