Barney Hoskyns

It is the great virtue of Across the Great Divide that Hoskyns has managed to make the less glamorous business of being a band come so alive. The attention to fluctuations in group chemistry... — Sunday TimesMore…

An indispensable compendium for Steely Dan fans -- Greeta Dayal — The WireMore…

Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans will love it — Classic RockMore…

Hoskyns impresses with the sheer weight of testimony he has amassed and the skill with which he has woven it into a tightly coiled and elegiac narrative — Sunday TimesMore…