"Barefoot On Diamond Road is the third album from the Netherlands's Amber Arcades, the recording persona of Annelotte de Graaf. Away from music, her work as a lawyer has brought a role in the international war crimes tribunal. Previously, her music was a form of Eighties-ish indie with touches of shoegazing. Beyond her glass-like voice, guitar was a main focus. This is different. De Graaf has embraced a more electronic approach, initially hinted at by "Turning Light" from her 2016 first album Fading Lines. While there's a Billie Eilish "Everything I Wanted" drift or odd intimations of "Born to Die" Lana Del Rey, first passes through the new album evoke El Perro del Mar or a less flinty I Break Horses: both of whom are Swedish. A particularly north European sensibility is at play".