“This is a beautiful album. Moving rather than maudlin, uplifting rather than depressing… Impressionistic symphonic-pop maestro Sufjan Stevens, back this autumn with a new album, had better watch his back. Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, cooking up his own long-gestating, musical-film project, has been served notice. Here is a song-painter blessed with huge talent” **** - The Guardian

“there’s majesty in moments like the panoramic title track, suggesting the scope and scale of The Decemberists or even early Waterboys, while lachrymose brass and a Neil Young guitar break give songs like ‘My Broken Heart’ a crucial heft.” – Hot Press

“The title track is the album opener and is an epic song laden with layers of string and brass instrumentals, and lyrics packed with allegory and hope, sung in an almost spoken-word trance; “I’m still here hoping that one day you will come back”... All in all a beautiful and accomplished second album, yet one to approach with care if you have anything close to a fragile state of the heart.” – State.ie

“Noah and The Whales second album finds a strange, uplifting beauty in heartache and loss… Seldom has twenty-something angst felt so weirdly, richly exhilarating” **** - Metro

8/10 – Cluas.com