"Once upon a time, Bella Hardy was a Radio 2 award-winning folk singer, folding her bright, Judy Collins vowels around tales of cruel mothers and trawlermen's wives. Ten years after her debut album Night Visiting she's a different creature entirely, her new album swerving between Radio 2-friendly pop and the melodic fringes of post-rock, its lyrics inspired by feminism, racism, and her international travels (she's spent the last two years in Nashville and China). It was produced by Paul Savage, who has worked with the Delgados and Mogwai, and the alternative legacies of those bands seep into the sounds surrounding these songs ..."