It's a voice that deserves the glorious arrangements built around it: the opening seconds of Golden Streams alone crams in church organ, harps and choirs, whereas Owen Pallett's string arrangements conjure up an entering-the-pearly-gates sound befitting of a band who frequently played gigs in churches.
"It's the silk wall fabric, but it's also the way the sunlight comes through the glorious flower arrangements".
With no other characters to fill the void (with the exception of the show's secret weapon, Jhyll King and her glorious flower arrangements) Lilley has made it almost impossible for us to care.
The songs are wordy and disappointingly light on the knock 'em dead catchiness that was once their forte, but what The Liberty of Norton Folgate lacks in hit singles it makes up for in glorious ska/reggae arrangements and Suggs's perpetual chirpiness, which is laced with the bemusement of a chap who can't work out where the years went.
But the most impressive aspect of the show was the way in which the King Of Limbs material, which many fans initially found hard to love, provided some of the most persuasive moments, from the hurtling momentum of "Morning Mr. Magpie" to the glorious multilayered vocal arrangement of "Give Up The Ghost".
It's not that these songs are bad – the arrangements are glorious, though occasionally a little florid, and the melodies are present and correct – more that they don't sound quite right.
With sounds bordering on the melodic electronica soundscape, her music is minimal, the arrangements are glorious, and the production is crisp.
Our room had a mezzanine and glorious views of the sea, but arrangements of dried flowers and a pervasive interior brown-ness lent an air of melancholy, even in sunshine.
They're glorious, really sensitive sort of avant-garde, sweet little arrangements.
The arrangement was designed so that most of the glorious objects were placed in the middle of galleries and visible to as many people as possible.
