"The music is hard to classify - complex yet spare, all tension and release, with a metallic shading that gives it extra bite - but the main instrument and star is Savage's own voice ... It's a document of hard-won, purposeful growth, of striving to stay airborne when illusions are demolished and we're not owed all the answers. No pursuit is ever really dead, it turns out, and fake it `til you make it is terrible advice".