"The Breaks his first proper solo album in quite some time, is probably his most accessibly `pop' record since the Boo Radley's bulldozed Radio 1 with 'Wake Up Boo!' some two decades previous, and like that masterful earworm it does its job well. While nothing here is earth shattering, especially original or remotely cool (as the kids of today would understand it) the whole thing is, start to finish, immensely satisfying".