Returning to his native England after an extended sojourn in America, heavily reconnects with his homeland's mysticism on 2014's . Despite the shift in geography, the singer is picking up a thread he left hanging with 2010's . On that album, blurred boundaries between several musical styles, playing covers with a group assembled by producer , but here he shifts that omnivorous aesthetic to a collection of originals performed with his ever-changing band . Certain flourishes sound familiar -- he remains equally enamored of English and Moroccan folk while retaining an enduring obsession with American blues and psychedelia -- but the feel is different, not as robust as or warmly joyous as . may not get loud -- usually, when it rocks it sounds like a kissing cousin to a folk rave-up; sometimes, as on "Somebody There," it's chiming, crystalline, and bright like -- but it is intensely meditative, finding sustenance within mystery. is reflecting on where he's been -- singing "And if the sun refuses to shine" on "Pocketful of Golden," he tips a hat to his past; elsewhere he speaks of getting lost in America -- yet gingerly avoiding questions of mortality and resisting the allure of easy sentimentality. It's possible to hear the weight of his years on -- it is, in the best sense, mature music, dense in its rhythms and allusions, subtle in its melodies -- but he never feels weary, nor does he traffic in false nostalgia. He's building upon the past, both his own and the larger traditions of his homeland, both spiritual and actual, and that gives a bewitching depth. It's an album to get lost in. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine