The Lovetones' third album is less explicit in its '60s and '70s reference
points than its
predecessor, Meditations. At times it sounds like a rather average
singer/songwriter album
dusted with late-'60s/early-'70s quirks in the production and the arrangements,
particularly
with Mellotron sounds, mildly distorted vocals and instruments, and organs that
seem as if
they might have been airlifted in from a different era. While it doesn't give
pleasure to point
this out, the best moments are those that are most reminiscent of past work by
the greats.
That's particularly the case when songwriter Matt Tow reaches for the kind of
expansive
grandeur projected by David Bowie in the early '70s, when Bowie seemed at his
most sincere
-- a similarity that's never greater than in "Ordinary Lives," one of the
record's highlights. If
you always lamented that the ever-changing Bowie abandoned that phase of his
development
fairly quickly, some of these songs are the kind of thing that can give you a
quick fix of more
of the same, though Tow isn't as far-reaching (or pretentious) in his scope. If
you also lament
the lost art of writing decent melodic mid-tempo songs that use keyboards as
well as guitars,
it's recommended as well, sometimes specifically recalling John Lennon's knack
for doing
such material in the '70s.

~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide