“Glorious”

– Electronic Sound

“Curious, warm, reflective, enlightening: entirely in the spirit of their wonderful music”

– Nicola Meighan, A Kick Up The Arts

“For a band whose mystique has only deepened in the years since Hollis’s passing, this is the document their legacy has been waiting for”

– Eric Alper, SiriusXM

“Thomson’s book honours that mystique while at the same time attempting to decipher the glorious intensity of the music”

– The List

“[A] fascinating and stirring tribute to one of the most inscrutable bands of the ’80s … Elegantly articulates the sensuality of the band’s sound 4/5”

– Classic Pop

“Genuinely illuminating...with all the depth of detail such 'world building' entails”

– The Wire

“Thomson vividly fills the gaps with his forensic detail, deep listening and jigsaw anecdotes piecing together a picture of an inscrutable artist 4/5”

– Mojo 

“An opportunity to wonder. A proper old labour of love. It's a very good book”

– Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, Word in Your Ear

“A pointedly personal celebration of an often insane-sounding musical visionary, whose working methods bordered on madness.  Hollis once stated, ‘I would rather hear one note than I would two, and I would rather hear silence than I would one note’, yet nevertheless, this admirable book makes plain, his music demands to be heard to this day”

– Travis Elborough, The Idler