Matt O'Neill, Journalist

"It's a fabulously well-crafted listen."

"Tonight was a glorious, full-throated dismissal of that notion."

"More Waits circa '83 than Dylan circa '65."

"While there's no faulting the material or the performances ... the patient, pulsing spectacle just doesn't seem to fit the venue."

"There were many times, during the process of making the record, where we just felt like, 'What fucking country are we in?!'"

"There's a simple truth to confront: The most powerful experience of the evening did not come from the headliners."

"'PAINT' is noisy, colourful and exploratory."

"It's a neat, subtle trick that serves to lend an urgency to his compositions on record - but inevitably grows monotonous in concert."

"Simultaneously intelligent, melancholy and savage."