No sound without silence

"Aurelio makes an elegant return to his Garifuna roots (...), to songs and folk tunes learned from his mother ... Despite its simplicity, Lándini is an elegant creation, its easy, swaying rhythms overlaid (at times contradicted) by Aurelio's impassioned vocals. Its subjects run from celebration to tragedy ... There's a ruminative, melancholic undertow throughout and some deft surf-guitar work. Smell the salt air".

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"Pretty much every pop star - from Bono to Miley - is namechecked on 'Without Those Songs', while 'Never Seen Anything Quite Like You' is a swaying and sweet ballad that could probably do without the jarring use of "prom", especially for a band who are only too happy to put on the green jersey. Case-in-point, 'Paint The Town Green', which sounds as if written to be the anthem of Coppers' different embassies around the world, frequented by Irish emigrants. It is, however, a moment of light relief in a pretty earnest album. And while many lines may induce a cringe ('No Good In Goodbye'), their ear for a pop hook can't be denied".

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"Every hook is seemingly written with a choreographed stadium pose to match, every lyric directed towards an imagined sea of mobile phones. It's efficiently done of course, and shifts mood smoothly from the jaunty Dublin knees-up of Paint the Town Green to string-laden sob rock on Without Those Songs. But like the pseudo-profundity of its title, it amounts to very little".

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