Reviews / Album

My Head Is An Animal is an album that seems fixated with memory, and nostalgia, an attempted incantation of a poetically recalled past.

While Sweet Heart Sweet Light retreads many of Pierce’s obsessions – doomed relationships, death and, most frequently, reconciling religious beliefs with a life of wanton hedonism – there are some new developments.

The now five-piece group take full advantage of their extended musical scope with lush layered harmonies... At times used to good effect, in some places it somewhat dilutes the snuggling velvet texture of Luke Temple’s voice.

It is by far Newcombe’s most coherent work in recent times...