[6][7][8][9][nb 1] The album includes a cover version of Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" and songs written by Graeme Miles, Alex Glasgow, Archie Fisher, John Tams, Peter Bellamy and Jez Lowe, plus a centrepiece track, "The Romantic Tees", written by Adrian McNally.

In a four-starred review The Observer's Neil Spencer described it as "a stark creation, using little more than piano, violin and voices" but said that its minimalism "lends poignancy to songs and poetry narrating the glory and grime of a vanished era".

[3] However, Jen Bowden for The Skinny felt that it "lacks the buzz of previous Unthanks albums... As a film soundtrack it is an emotive, image-ridden heart-breaker, but as an stand-alone listen it too easily fades, like its ghosts, into the background.

"[5] And Martin Townsend, writing in the Daily Express, said that "Rachel and Becky Unthank’s admirably prolific output is beginning to count against them a little, as the delicacy of their earlier work gives way to a slightly clichéd earnestness.

[2] Rosamund Woodroffe, for Bright Young Folk, admitted that the album can be "slightly more abstract than other release by The Unthanks" but said that "it is beautifully crafted, delicately put together and lovingly performed – a stunning testament to the shipyards".