No Time for Dreaming

No Time for Dreaming was produced by Thomas Brenneck for Daptone's Dunham imprint, with the Menahan Street Band on every track. Its singles were "The World (Is Going Up in Flames)" (December 14, 2010) and "Heart of Gold" (May 3, 2011), a Neil Young cover; the album also includes a cover of Nirvana's "Stay Away". Snippets say it was recorded at 250 Menahan Street and mixed at Daptone's House of Soul, which we could not confirm on a page we read. Metacritic scored it 79; it reached 24 in Denmark, 34 in the Netherlands and 36 in Flanders, and Mojo placed it 40th of 2011.

AllMusic's Hal Horowitz gave it four stars; Spin's Josh Modell found Bradley's despair never less than stirring; Now Toronto's Benjamin Boles gave it four stars, saying the results are worth the wait; and Tiny Mix Tapes gave it 3 out of 5.