"Barnes has created an expressive atmospheric album that resonates with emotion both positive and negative. Often songs feel claustrophobic and confined until a single note or riff signals a change to something altogether more expansive and panoramic, like opening the door to a dusty room that has been shut up for years. He paints in broad strokes on a vast canvas to create broad, far-reaching, soundscapes that are as confounding as they are hypnotic"

"There is an earnestness to Barnes's latest project, a shrugging off of cynicism, and almost even an oxymoronically informed naïveté. Just engage somewhere with someone about something; that's it, that's all he's asking"