Modern Studies We Are There 9/1/09 Across the album’s 17 tracks

Across the album’s 17 tracks and 70-minute running time

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experimenting with new influences and exciting sounds

noting the album's expanded musical textures that nevertheless retained the welcoming and empathetic intimacy of Smith's songwriting

Modern Studies We Are There 9/1/09 Across the album’s 17 tracksSensitive, smart, inventive, cultured, brimming with complex ideas Record Collector Theres a charm within Modern Studies DNA which makes them, without fanfare or clamour, one of todays most mesmerising outfits. Prog Magazine Through the hazy daze of a smoky folk opus, Modern Studies craft rich soundtracks, stuttering Super 8 sketches from a washed out world of melancholy, hand tinted and tantalising. Lullaby couplets blossom into gorgeous chamber pop