"The album from which these songs come - Flat White Moon, the band's eighth - comes with all sorts of olive branches, dialling down the brothers' more forbidding instincts and amping up their love of soft rock. Sweet Beatles harmonies and body-friendly time signatures are foregrounded; the band's unorthodox melodies come across as inspired, rather than as a secret handshake exchanged between initiates; much emotion is packed into these precise lyrics".