26 June 2009
Daily MirrorGavin Martin
This album, documenting the break-up of Fitzsimmons' blind parents' marriage, was made in a darkened boarded-up room. At the end of the process, qualified therapist Fitzsimmons' own marriage ended, but the result is a work of stark beauty pitched between the eggshell-fragile ruminations of the late, great Elliott Smith and the intimate musicality of Sufjan Stevens.