3 stars out of 5 - "Darnielle's striking way with a phrase makes songs about Milky Ways for breakfast and smelly flats into things of quiet wonder.", 4 stars out of 5 - "The music is sweet, black and subtle: downcast piano, small skips of guitar, plops of violin....This record is unputdownable.", 3 Stars Out of 5-"Darnielle's Gift for Pissed-Off Poetry and Left-Field Details Remains Intact.", "If there's a more appropriate narrator of the human shadows who trudge explosively or uneasily through their thirties thinking way too much, he has yet to come into our scope.", 3 Stars Out of 5-"Darnielle ISA Lyrical Genius..."