Policy

"Policy is twitchy and endearingly ramshackle, channelling the can-do spirit of early-80s indie and the affability of Jonathan Richman. It's not all in the same vein - Anna is Talking Heads-style pop, Sing to Me a ballad - but every song is blessed with Butler's childlike dynamism. Butler recently wrote a song a day for a week based on Guardian stories - he is very much his own man".

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"'Policy' is a gloriously unhinged sprawl of a record, but fittingly for the man who constructed sparse piano tech-paeans for the soundtrack to Spike Jonze's 2013 movie Her, the downbeat moments resonate, too. 'Finish What I Started' and 'Sing To Me' promise an acclaimed sideline as a piano balladeer in the future. But for now, just because he's paranoid doesn't mean we're not watching him".