The Sky At Night is a magical, ethereal collection of songs with a oneiric quality and an uplifting melancholia. In the opening track Northern Skies, John Bramwell’s lyrical beauty and warm vocals begin to tell a story as he invites us to 'see the stars and constellations and sit beneath their congregations.' Through beautiful melodies and heartfelt lyrics the story sparkles with instrumentation and airy percussion. To The Brink is a lonely tale told from the bottom of a whiskey bottle with a sadness resonating from the crescendo of the orchestral arrangements. Lately takes the album down a bluesy jazz road which emerges again towards the end of the album on tracks Radiation and Same Shoes, with Bramwell’s vocals lingering over saxophones, cellos and violins. Behind the intricate strings, subtle drums and moving narrative there is a beautiful simplicity to this album, and an undertone of heartache from a lonely walk home under a twinkling night sky.
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