"There are moments on Untogether where the music comes close to the sensuality that it frequently hints at, but it's so caught up in embracing separation that it pushes out anything resembling redemption. It's so ethereal that it's barely there. Common wisdom and John Donne tell us that no person is an island, but what Blue Hawaii has created here is any indication, not only can people be their own islands, they can ascend into their own solitary atmospheres".