Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "The title track is the most ambitious, an episodic voyage from acoustic love song through passages of percussion and extraordinary multi-tracked harmonies.", "Lidell's voice is a thing of wonder....It's soul music informed by all the developments in music since the genre's golden age...", "The Gorgeous Compass Boasts Classical Guitars and a Dusky, Latin Backbeat...", "Lidell -- like a peculiar cross of Prince and Otis Redding -- remains confidently true to his soul vision, creating a tense musical discourse that wrings raw emotion from each eclectic track.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lidell's vocals are alternately anguished and joyous but always supple. It's quite a ride.", "Jamie Lidell has managed the neat trick of constructing a solid, distinctive identity out of headlong pastiche: falsetto crooning, post-IDM glitch funk, '90s-indebted R&B beats.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A disc of elegantly warped love songs....Lidell evokes Prince on the falsetto-rich 'Your Sweet Boom'...", "Most of the album sticks to the kind of warped romantic confections and wild, simmering vamps he does best."
