RaveiNews (UK)Paper Cuts is primarily an elegiac hymn to that already sepia-tinted era ... Those seeking the not wholly inaccurate cliché of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll will be partly sated. Sex is chastely avoided, but there are drugs aplenty and, inevitably, rock’n’roll is everywhere ... [Kessler] is too smart, funny and deft a writer for his endlessly repeated self-descriptions as \'idiot\' and \'doofus\' to ring true. No matter: Kessler’s unswerving belief in both the redemptive, sometimes life-changing, power of popular music and the need for it to be documented from the inside by writers such as himself means Paper Cuts defines an era. And it defines it rather beautifully.
Guillem Balagué
PositiveiNews (UK)Balagué’s take on this wonderful footballer but deeply damaged man-child is part Faustian pact, part twisted fairy tale ... It is an old-fashioned morality tale, but as this flawless footballer and flawed man once said: \'I touched the sky with my hands.\'
