"[1] This also resulted in a darker musical and lyrical tone, which Fortnam revealed "touches on tragic things that I've experienced, and that brings on more profound feelings.

"[1] One of the major inspirations of the work was the plight of Fortnam's friend and mentor Tim Smith, who was incapacitated by a heart attack and series of strokes in 2008.

The Rock Club compared the album to the work of Joanna Newsom, Julianna Barwick and The Leisure Society and commented on its "significant charm".

[4] BBC Review's Gary Mulholland hailed it as "the world's first baroque-Krautrock-folk-rock-Michael Nyman-madrigal-Kate Bush-electro-pop album" and as being "genuinely very beautiful.

This alienated, superior feel is contrasted by the sheer beauty of Craig Fortnam's melodies, which have that knack of suddenly shifting to the one chord available that can make spines tingle and toes curl with pleasure.

Meanwhile, the arrangements wear their classical and ancient folk influences so lightly that a track like "Berliner Luft" can find itself sounding like Neu!