Malcolm Middleton - Sleight Of Heart

" The fourth album from the former Arab Strap man is more subdued than the terrific A Brighter Beat (2007). Instead, Middleton shows off impressive acoustic guitar skills oddly reminiscent of a young Paul Simon, has a stately bash at Madonna's Stay, revives Jackson C. Frank's obscure and lovely Just Like Anything and stomps through King Creosote's Marguerita Red"
4/5 | The Times

"a collection which is enjoyable and - at least in terms of Malcolm Middleton - optimistic, and an essential companion to A Brighter Beat. After all, you can't fully appreciate yin without yang, can you?"
bbb.co.uk

"gloriously haunting array of original mourn-friendly numbers with a sprinkling of covers thrown in for rude measure"
4/5 | The List