THE SUNDAY TIMES (5 stars - CD of the Week) ““..remember how Wilco’s “experimental” album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot turned out to be simply a series of brilliant pop songs? Same thing here....a succession of delicious pop choruses.” Uncut Magazine “The best album of its kind since Elbow's all-conquering The Seldom Seen Kid. That the 30-voice choir finale...is all him is just one of many miracles this jewel yields.”: 4 stars MOJO “"Pioneering spirit, murky drama, event the title 'Twice Born Men' - is this the missing folk sequel to Johnny Greenwood's 'There Will Be Blood' soundtrack." 4 stars The music of Sweet Billy Pilgrim is first and foremost, staggeringly beautiful. But it’s a shy beauty – a lingering ambience and a distant clicking in the night, church windows built from littered glass, love songs that look to the day when even the children are forgotten. Strangers tell you their heartbreaks. Fountains toss back their coins. And just when you start to feel skeptical, in shambles singer Tim Elsenburg – shaggy and dour, wringing joy from his melodies with a bashful croak and a glorious croon. Sweet Billy Pilgrim are exemplars of English atmospheric art-pop, and it’s natural that they would release their second album, Twice Born Men, on David Sylvian’s SamadhiSound label. Even compared to a Radiohead or an Elbow, Sweet Billy Pilgrim achieve a sublime balance between their hooks and their moods, their ambitions and their humility. They also have a sense of humour. E