"There are moments of joy, nostalgia, sorrow, and even frivolity, like on the jazzy, upbeat "Largs," but the album reaches its emotional peak on the call to action "Pauper's Dough," whose slow musical build mirrors the sentiment of its ensemble chorus, "You've got to rise above the gutter you are inside." It's not the Scotland of Walker's shortbread and red-bearded pipers that so often gets shoveled out to tourists, but a moving portrait of strong-willed people enduring in times of change".