"Album of the week" - "The Mercury-winner has swerved the mainstream and made an avant garde concept album about Aleppo, the refugee crisis and two flies in love ... The ghost of David Bowie sometimes seems to haunt Clementine's vocal intonation, and the way One Awkward Fish's melody floats over the hyperactive rhythm pattern feels a little Blackstar-esque. Elsewhere it vaguely recalls the kind of theatrical, florid, episodic musical epics that some glam-era bands were fond of: Cockney Rebel's Sebastian, Psalm by Roxy Music, Queen's The March of the Black Queen. Mostly, however, it just sounds like a particularly uncompromising statement by a unique artist".