Reason to live

"As ever, this latest window into his psyche prompts as many questions as it provides answers - despite offering his usual warmth and intimacy, he still deftly keeps the listener at bay by retaining a degree of mystery. But of course, that's just one of many factors here that'll keep you coming back for more; a tangled web that's never less than utterly compelling".

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"An album of acoustic melodicism and humanism, lo-fi and sketchy in places, it's undeniably an album for the long haul. You might not love it right this week; but like all the best records, come back to me in a month, two months, tell me about that evening over a bottle with two close friends when it clicked and you heard it for the first time, really. You know where to find me".

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"While many of the songs here differ little stylistically from his lo-fi self-recorded contributions to 1991's brilliantly sprawling Sebadoh III - it's largely just his voice and his acoustic guitar - the variation in tone and mood is a definite upgrade ... Even songs that might once have sounded angstily passive-aggressive (most notably All You People Suck) are now imbued with warmth. It all adds up to a highly pleasing change of direction".

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