“On Ribbons, it seems Bibio is taking the time to reflect. After 2017's beautifully minimal Phantom Brickworks, which saw the artist exploring fully improvised ambient music for the first time, Ribbons attempts to sum up Bibio's sonic career from beginning to now. Folktronica songs are placed right beside indie pop tunes, tied together with a consideration and passion that make the record's seemi”
“After drifting into ambient drone on his last album, Stephen Wilkinson returns to his chill, bucolic stomping grounds.”
“Bibio bottles Springtime on 10th album Ribbons”
“Stephen Wilkinson is a man with a vast discography. Operating largely solo and a player of countless instruments, here is an artist whose musical talent and prodigious output is beyond question. Ribbons is his tenth album, where his restless stylistic wanderings have returned to what is essentially English folk music, with a few very interesting twists. The opening track is almost monkish; a past”
