“Richly detailed, alternately rugged and studio slick, the airy and expressive debut album from Montreal’s Half Moon Run is caught somewhere between the pastoral, harmony-laden northwoods folk of Fleet Foxes, the hazy classic rock meanderings of Band of Horses, and the soulful midnight din of Alt-J and Jeff Buckley. Each track on the brainy yet intuitive ‘Dark Eyes’ sounds like the sum of its parts, but there is enough space between those parts to suggest a sort of unspoken agreement to avoid any sort of showboating.” - James Christopher Monger, AllMusic