"Sheer pop-hook majesty and killer choruses... pure inspiration" - Sunday Times ****

"An eccentric Yorkshireman who deserves to be considered the peer of fellow electro-melodicists Fuck Buttons and Animal Collective" - **** MOJO

"The melodies are generous, the emotions writ large, and the arrangements thrilling." - Word

"There's an appealing spirit of English eccentricity to James Mabbett's second album... it channels influences as far-flung as Brian Wilson, Balearic house and space rock." - The Observer

"Swirling atmospheric backdrops take you on bizarre aural trips... an infectiously entertaining, from-the-heart album" - Artrocker

"Christiania is faultless." - (Recommended Album) The Line Of Best Fit

"An inarguably majestic affair" - **** The Big Issue

"This is a voice which yearns and needs to be heard, and it warrants it, too... revel in its constant realised ambition." - BBC Music

"An off-kilter trip-pop wonder, recalling the likes of Panda Bear and Dan Deacon." - Clash

"Life and vivacity flows through the album... stunning." - 8/10 Drowned In Sound

"Christiania's dense pop productions merit further investigation and reveal a perverse intelligence at work." - Stool Pigeon

"A true master of the kind of outsider pop that's created for bespectacled youths turned off by chart hits." - Loud & Quiet

"Napoleon IIIrd sweats undiluted awesome power. The kind of performance that makes you want to call everyone you care about and tell them they should be here to see it." - The Fly