Who Is the Sender?

"All slow builds and gradual dawnings, this rich follow-up ponders the artistic process with a gentleness that belies great depth. A specific focus rests on the artist's role as witness to wonderment - and its opposite. In Underneath the Sun, Fay casts an unblinking eye on how the stoic rhythm of the seasons is interrupted by the horror of "people... shooting at everyone/ Even little ones"".

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"Christian spirituality has always been the thread in Fay's work, but he's no evangelical autodidact. The simple, profound songs on Who Is the Sender? ask numerous questions and express doubts -- genuine faith has to if it is to remain viable. But because these tunes embrace the totality of earthly experience in the presence of the Divine, they can willfully accept a painful, broken world with a gentle, wide-open heart".

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"En fin, afdæmpet samling, som gennemstrømmes af såvel sangskriverens religiøse ståsted som af en fundamental bekymring over verdens tilstand: "What on earth is happening / what have we done?," som der spørges i Underneath The Sun. Andre af albummets titler - The Healing Day eller Cosmic Concerto - giver måske en antydning af temakredsen; på den musikalske front et omdrejningspunktet Fays klaver og vokal, som pakkes ind i intrikate, strygerbesatte arrangementer".