"Drown Out is Darlington's meditation on pain, mortality and loss. "Meditation" isn't a word normally associated with someone whose music can swing from ballroom waltz to drum & bass in a single track. Yet in contrast to his earlier works, Drown Out really lets his music breathe. Previously there was the sense of a man trying to squeeze in as many ideas as possible, but here he seems prepared to relax and just let things flow".