An orchestrated songbook

"Most orchestral rearrangements of pop/rock material veer toward the grandiose, so it's noteworthy that An Orchestrated Songbook feels intimate, the symphony acting as empathetic support to Weller's guitar and voice. Buckley's arrangements of Weller's canny self-curation help give An Orchestrated Songbook a subtle but palpable emotional resonance that separates it from other orchestral pop reworkings, not to mention the heavy number of Weller live albums".

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"The outcome (...) is a fully realised, splendidly coherent piece of work from a legacy act that still wants to matter. Fair enough".

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"While it's not an unqualified success, 'An Orchestrated Songbook' is still an intriguing, at times fascinating exercise. Often drawn towards neglected elements of his own catalogue, Paul Weller seems to conjure a shadow portrait, one that finds him kicking against expectations in the beginning of a new decade".

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