The separation it explores may be linguistic, musical, cultural and social but obviously given the embedded traditions at work here and the recording location being very much in the celtic fringe, the idea of Scottish separation is also on the menu. But this is not an overtly political album and raises its issues as much through its feeling, its unspoken subtexts and its mere existence and seeks only to pose questions in the gentlest and most intangible and indirect way rather than provide answers.
In an ever shifting culture, a world ever on the change and one doing so at an ever faster rate, this album is the perfect counterpoint of traditional sounds and adapting to an unwritten future and proves that as much as things change, some can still stay the same. It’s a musical Trojan horse, a familiar package but one that may contain keys to the future, a future that we are all going to have to deal with in our own way.