Radum calls, radum calls

"That his new material is of a particularly high standard isn't a surprise - O'Hagan is a recognised master of arranging and production techniques, after all - but what is a surprise is how nimble the music sounds. Across a small number of instrumentals (the best of which is the harp-plucked delight Better Lull Bear) and a slew of songs that bring to mind XTC at their most forward-thinking and delicate, O'Hagan gifts the listener an earful of earthly delights".

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"Over the course of almost 30 years, Sean O'Hagan guided the High Llamas through a series of albums that established, then stretched and morphed, a sunshiny chamber pop sound that relied on elements both exceedingly organic and coaxed from machines. Radum Calls, Radum Calls is his first album since 1991 to bear his own name, and it's not very different from what people have come to expect from the Llamas ... No matter the name, it's impressive that O'Hagan continues to examine this one small corner of the musical universe, still finding new ways to combine sounds in ways that please the ear and stimulate the mind".

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"There is almost a surfeit of good ideas on Radum Calls, Radum Calls. Sometimes you wish O'Hagan would have developed one idea a little more, before moving on to the next. The album is a weird third cousin to Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star, where ideas pop up and vanish as the restless mind of the creator moves on to something else. That sometimes leaves the listener slightly baffled, but never bored. And definitely intrigued".

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