This is the kind of meticulously arranged art-pop that most people can only love or hate. I’m sorry to say that with Clang Sayne’s self-released album “Winterlands” I’ll have to opt for a subdued response. It’s a little bit too much of everything: too many instruments, too many sounds even though the overall ambition is to sound restrained, too many counter-intuitive Brechtian V-effects with dysfunctional percussion, too many quotes from too many literary texts: art or music students doing an experimental pop album. Late Neubauten is all over the place here, which, to some, needn’t be a bad thing by any means. All of which is well-made (especially given that the tracks were apparently all recorded in single take), and at times, especially in “Lady Grey’s Allotment” and “Bric-à-Brac”, does resemble Joanna Newson more than a bit, but in the end it comes across as too contrived to really give me much pleasure. 5/10 -- Jan-Arne Sohns (9 June, 2010)