International Blue Quotes

Stephen Emmer is one of those musicians/composers who knows the musical rules best and therefore also how to break them

[Tony Visconti - David Bowie, Moody Blues, Morrissey]

As classy as a gleaming vintage Rolls

[The Times]

Inescapable echoes of a villainous Bond theme

[Mojo 4 Music]

I have listened to the album and it's extraordinarily beautiful. Truly transporting

[Anthony Decurtis]

Sets a high watermark for lushness

[Q Magazine]

I can hear this as the next Bond Soundtrack

[Janice Long - BBC Radio]

Very impressive

[Gary Kemp - Spandau Ballet]

Luscious and beautiful

[Robert Elms - BBC Radio]

This musical work by Stephen Emmer comes highly recommended

[Michael Brocken - Biographer Burt Bacharach]

This music is simultaneously lush and ominous, panoramic and intimate. In a much better world than this one, Emmer and Visconti would be creating the next generation of James Bond movie themes

[Charles Shaar Murray - The rock critics’ rock critic]

I have listened to the album and it is extraordinarily beautiful. Truly transporting

[Anthony DeCurtis - Author and music critic]

With International Blue he has topped himself, creating a gorgeously atmospheric soundscape of emotional music. This world needs more ambitious and visionary musicians like Stephen

[Scott Bennett - Brian Wilson collaborator and band member]

For fans of David Bowie

[Shortlist]

The album is a set of lush, timeless songs, by which you can wish over and over again that they were sung by Scott Walker

[Der Spiegel]

Absolutely great

[Ken Nordine - Father of Wordjazz]