“Records like ‘Sun On The Square’ don’t come around often. Really, this is the innocence mission’s first album in four years, and their first UK release in over a decade. Alongside their self-removal from most touring circuits, they have become to many indie spheres what Simon Joyner is to folk music: a well-kept but influential secret. Once again, Karen Peris’s voice is shortbread at the heart of”
“The entrancingly beautiful folk-pop that Karen and Don Peris have been releasing for the past three decades under the name The Innocence Mission is a monument to a simpler way. After three Sundays-ish albums for the major label A&M in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the duo, along with their bassist, Mike Bitts, slipped into the indie scene and into a quieter, less radio-friendly sound starting with”
