"I take it all quite seriously….before recording this record I would, for example, get up at dawn and go and swim in the sea – in October – in Cornwall – to strengthen my will power and give myself...

"Ultimately, Johnston connects because he’s really a storyteller, more than a country musician, and because he’s telling the stories that so rarely get the space to breathe into life in mainstream ...

"This fantasty-land may look like paradise, but everything is crumbling. Yacht girls teeter on Valium, men are mirages, and conspiracy cults proliferate in the hills. Each drama duly becomes a song...

"Skate Pop is a vengeance of sorts. The band put more thought and emotion into this record than anything they’ve ever done. This time round there was less external pressure. They got back to how it...

"Lamentations was a moment of arrival and a pure statement of intent from the artist who previously, had built a reputation as a strong ensemble performer with artists like Paul Mac and Blue King B...

"Remarkable in its variety yet impressive in the way it ties different ideas together, it swoops from tracks like ‘Only Fair’, which opens with a menacing guitar progression, to stripped-back folk ...