“Dublin singer-songwriter Conor O'Brien is obsessed with transformation. After previous band the Immediate imploded, he reinvented himself as Villagers on 2010's morphology-minded Becoming a Jackal, wherein touches of bossa nova and percussive freakouts infiltrated the sort of MOR folk-rock that O'Brien has no incentive to leave behind in light of Mumford & Sons' Billboard dominance. His recent sin”
