“The two duets with Vedder are the strongest of too many funereally morose dirges that bind the album.”

“Spider-web-thin and funereally paced, Alexei Kaleina and Craig Macneill's cryptic collaboration offers no shortage of imprisoned feelings.”

“In a later, closer photograph of the same scene, the smoke is Turneresque: funereally black but with patches of sulphurous yellow, while the benign, inane blue sky still shines in the west.”