Paul Weller

"A late career peak of grandeur that seems almost effortless."

"It seems fucking insurmountable at the foot of the mountain, but once you’re halfway up it you go, ‘Alright, I remember this’"

"This is very much a modern record drawing on a galaxy of musical influences"

His heavy association with the Brit-pop movement and songwriting that is embedded in the English culture has left him with an album that balances extensiveness, focus and inspiration.

How can so many cross-pollinations of genres and sub-genres deliver such a coherent longplayer? Must be all those mod cons working still.

It’s all done with apparent sincerity, but many will end up not quite sure where the artist’s true passions lay – other than in the mirror.