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Kate Molleson from The Guardian describes how ‘Weeks homes in on horticultural imagery in the texts so we get vine tendrils and flowers waving in the breeze, all treated with a close, gentle sensuality that shimmers and beguiles but never gets lurid.’ She says Weeks’ ‘lush, finespun music’ is full of ‘refinement and definition.’

Tim Rutherford-Johnson from The Rambler blog says Week’s album is his ‘pick of the listening’ and the ‘best thing [he’s] heard from Weeks so far.’ He writes: ‘Making use of the little canonic and fan-like games that populate a lot of his music, Mala punica – interleaved on this recording with the three-part Walled Garden for instrumental ensemble – is a stunningly subtle, disarmingly simple achievement.”

As well as this new album, James Weeks recently premiered a new work at Wigmore Hall. This was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and has recently featured on their Hear and Now programme. It is currently still available to listen to on IPlayer here-http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pwm91 .