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Aug 15, 2014As a standalone album From Scotland With Love is good, but found wanting in areas of length and substance. As a soundtrack to a film, it’s wonderful. The context to choose is the listener’s.
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Jul 28, 2014It's not the Scotland of Walker's shortbread and red-bearded pipers that so often gets shoveled out to tourists, but a moving portrait of strong-willed people enduring in times of change.
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Jul 24, 2014With lyrical viewpoints and musical references more diverse than ever, this set is his finest solo release to date.
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Jul 21, 2014It also works as stand-alone propaganda for our friends north of the border, and album that feeds the imagination and makes you long for mountains, open space, and something a little more natural.
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Jul 21, 2014These songs respond beautifully to the pathos and drama of their subject, summoning a mood with subtle musical shifts but knowing when to deploy the grand gesture.
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Jul 18, 2014From Scotland with Love stands testimony to the increasing genius of Anderson and his craft.
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MojoJul 10, 2014An image-rich rumination on Scotland past and present. [Aug 2014, p.86]
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Q MagazineJul 10, 2014Anderson's anger, defiance and pride are all here, but what comes out is peculiarly beautiful and affecting. [Aug 2014, p.108]
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UncutJul 10, 2014From Scotland With Love successfully and movingly unites past and present, old and new, sight and sound. Another diamond. [Aug 2014, p.77]
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Jul 10, 2014A record which triumphs whether you’re a Scot or not, casting a very golden glow on the culture and traditions of such a vibrant country.
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Aug 27, 2014This album is more grounded in sounds recognizably made by physical instruments. It’s also, in places, openly archaic in its devices and treatments.
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Jul 21, 2014Creosote’s first album since doesn’t have quite the same woozy charm, trading the lush and eerie textures for gentler, more traditional ditties, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still pleasures to be plundered.