Excerpt: "Gentle gramophone crackling between  echoing drumbeats and atmospheric synth make 'Wooden Music' stand as a  soundscape all on its own. In 'Leatherwing Bat' and 'Hicks’ Farewell',  however, the sparse instrumentation serves as a vessel for Allen’s  voice, which soars like a Celtic hymn. More conventionally structured,  the title track is a gentle folk-pop offering that sees a keyboard part  exploring the upper registers while Allen self-harmonises and a simple  drum machine line keeps time. Conversely, 'Cloy' sees the percussion  stripped away and a mournful note bleeding into the vocals. The album's  elegance lies in the minimalist arrangement, which allows Allen’s  porcelain-fragile voice to draw the focus and give each little hiss,  string-strike and echo purpose and space to resonate."

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