There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight

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• David Sylvian – piano, sampler, computer, electronics, laptop
• Christian Fennesz – guitar, laptop
• John Tilbury – piano
• Franz Wright – spoken word

• Chris Bigg – design
• Tony Cousins – mastering
• Nicholas Hughes – cover photography
• Alfred A. Knopf – recording arrangement
• David La Spina – photography
• David Sylvian – art direction, engineering, production

The album was listed among the best records of 2014 by Bruno Letort of France Musique.^[4] A review at The Free Jazz Collective noted that the album marked a new step in Sylvian's exploration of the spoken word.^[5]

A review at Tiny Mix Tapes called the music "an ultra-slow jazz"^[2] while Steve Smith in the Boston Globe wrote that it "murmur[ed] in edgy assent".^[6] Joe Muggs of the Arts Desk found, "It smells of coal and leather, it looks at you through heavy-lidded eyes, it drifts into companionable reveries, before doing scary things to make sure you're still listening."^[7] A review by Phil Barnes at AllAboutJazz concluded, "Let's be clear, many are not going to be able to cope with a record with this much ambition, love of language and filmic improvisation. Reviews have been sharply divided between the ecstatic and the hatchet job -but for those prepared to listen this is an intriguing, emotionally unsettling, piece that will challenge, defying categorisation and analysis for many years to come."^[8]