“Brum outfit Medicine Sunday’s Unseen Rain six tracker showcases their love of big jangling guitars and Americana rootsy rock. With singer Mark Smith on vocals, the eponymous track’s a storming belter of thundering drums and slide guitar that suggests they’ve also bought a Black Crowes album along the way to go with that Beatles collection.”

“Cold is a more sober, moodily bluesy acoustic ballad with something that sounds like a tuba but is undoubtedly done with the bass. The blues are evident again with mournful harmonica wailing into Billy before it transforms into a solid Dylanesque number (Knocking On Heaven’s Door era) with Tracey Jewell providing the female harmony vocals.”

“Against the Tide hits a streak of strumming hillbilly that the rootsier elements of the alt country audience will fall over themselves for. Which leaves blues slapping boogie Mind The Gap to chug the Northern Line to Camden (other song subjects include failed marriage and mental illness) and the closing Stranger In My House, a sparse picked out Appalachian number that recalls the best of Gillian Welch with Jewell taking lead vocals and a lyric that could be about domestic abuse or death.”

“If they were American, they’d be wading knee deep through fulsome mountains of critical praise. Since they’re not and come from Birmingham, like Buick 6 and Neal Cook’s various bands, they’ll probably have to settle for a small but fanatically dedicated bunch of admirers who’ll rightly have this sitting proud alongside their Josh Rouse, Wilco and Steve Earle albums.”