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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.