"Colours Of The Night finds him in singer-songwriter mode, its 10 redemptive songs - written after serious burn-out following seven peripatetic years living and touring in Europe - oscillating between Americana, baroque chamber balladry and unabashed pop. Thus the wonderfully drowsy opener Red Earth comes on like a less wavering Will Oldham, The Reconnection makes an effervescent alloy of Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne, and the nostalgic, strings and woodwind-embellished Our Best has the heart-sore authenticity of Gram Parsons at his most tender".
