from the ground up, the songs take on a warm, organic and rootsy sound, transforming them into something altogether different from the originals. The album opens with 'Find the Sun', an overlooked classic from Heart Full of Sky , a heartbreaking ballad featuring some beautiful vocal harmonies. 'Flowers For Guns' goes bluegrass with banjo and mandolin. The arrangements of 'Black Rain' and 'Half a World' aren't far removed from the electric versions the band have been playing live, both featuring some acoustic shredding from Dave Kilminster. Even the Odin Dragonfly number 'This Game', an acoustic number to start with, turns into something quite different, now based around Alex Cromarty's percussion pattern and interlocking guitars. 'Unoriginal Sin', one of the standouts from Glass Shadows has an awful lot of power and energy for an acoustic song, with something of feel of Led Zeppelin 's acoustic side. The reworkings of three recent solo songs are very interesting. 'Seven', possibly the best song from The Phoenix Suite , is simply beautiful, and makes you wonder if it should have been recorded acoustically in the first place. 'Red Dust' is transformed almost out of recognition; what had been an indie-flavoured hard-rocker turns into a dreamy atmospheric ballad. The semi-epic 'Mona Lisa' also gains a surprising amount of additional depth. The album ends with 'Above the Blue', an exercise in stripped-down minimalism in the first place, which here sees Heather's emotive vocal matched to a very simple but subtle backing, making a fitting coda to