Pitchforkd. 25. May 2011ByByStuart Bermand. 25. May 2011"Look past its comically over-the-top presentation and you realize Cave isn't simply indulging in some subversive genre exercise. He was examining the very idea of poetic license, pushing the limits of what an artist can get away with in a song when writing in character".Read review
Drowned in soundd. 20. May 2011ByBySam Kinchin-Smithd. 20. May 2011"Wedged in as they are between Nick's funniest lyrics ("I've got a pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming" etc.) it's easy to forget that "Lovely Creature" and "Crow Jane" are full of uniquely strange textures, "Song of Joy" a uniquely brutal directness, "Henry Lee" some of Nick's finest harmonies".Read review