"In recent years, [Elkington has] played with Jeff Tweedy, Tortoise and, critically, Richard Thompson, whose nonchalant virtuosity has become a key influence on Elkington's playing. The songs on this second solo album are more substantive than those of 2017's "Wintres Woma": crisp études that recall the earlier work of another longtime Elkington collaborator, Steve Gunn, as well as the Anglo folk rock illuminati, Vocals are companionable, if a little insipid, but that barely matters when they're subsumed into an elaborate, woody matrix like the title track and matched with harmonies from The Weather Station's Tamara Lindeman (think: The Byrds' "Tribal Gathering"). Nice artwork homage to The Watersons' "Frost And Fire", too".