„You think there’s not much going on, only to find the songs growing upon you as inexorably as vines around an abandoned building. The music is lean and understated; Robert Forster’s lyrics, as ever, are penetrating and compelling. Imagine Reed narrating a Talking Heads album (it could be 77 or True Stories) and you’re getting close to the feeling of Songs To Play.“
(Andrew Stratton, The Guardian)