“The biography for Alex Izenberg on his record label’s website features a GIF, taken from his video for ‘To Move On’, of the man himself banging on the bottom of a glass bottle of ketchup in a frustrated attempt to eke some of the sauce out. We all know how that story ends – with a gush of far more than you actually needed – and presumably that’s where the metaphor comes into play as far as ‘Harle”
“A modernist spin on the ’70s singer-songwriter album, Harlequin often seems torn between its ambition and its nonchalance, a mix of perplexing quirks and disarming heart.”
