DIS vergibt 5/10 und schreibt u.a.:
On Shangri La Jake has shrugged off some of the more tedious tropes of his debut – there’s no fake vinyl crackle, or affected vocal trying to convince us we’re listening to something recorded at Sun Studios in 1964, but that aside, few lessons have been learned. Every song still feels like either ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’ (‘Slumville Sunrise’, ‘Me and You’) or a kind of faded photocopy of late-period, post-Oasis Britpop with its obsession with ‚proper‘ songwriting, itself a poorer photocopy of the ‚proper‘ writing of Ray Davies, Paul McCartney and Steve Marriott.
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