Declan O'Rourke's artistry has been described as 'proffering reassurance in the face of inevitable sorrow' by Jon Pareles, chief music critic of the New York Times. 'Galileo' was described by Paul Weller as the song he most wished he'd written from the past 30 years. Other notable fans of O'Rourke are the Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, Imelda May, Pete Townshend and Eddi Reader, who described Declan as 'one of the finest songwriters on the planet'.