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Eddie Halliday
"Replaced by These Colours" |
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Usually when I have to listen to a CD that’s described as folk and mentions how the recording was such a terrible trial I die a little bit inside at the insipid MOR drivel seeping into my ears. But not today! I was fully expecting a dullfest (despite the nice packaging) but actually this is a really lovely little album, which far transcends what has come to be expected from modern folk, or nu folk or whatever nonsense name you want to use.
There’s very much a sixties thing going on here, with more than just hints of the folk usual suspects - Woodie Guthrie, Dylan, the Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan and so on, but also a lot of more pop influences, like the Monkees and - more recently - The Lemonheads and Teenage Fanclub. It also reminds me a lot in places of the Swedish (I think) band Beezewax, which is most definitely a good thing.
Basically, this album makes walking through a crowded town centre on a spring day where you misjudged how warm it was and wore a coat so you’re too hot and everyone seems to want to get in your way and it’s the school holidays so there are loads of kids and someone really close to you smells bad and your shoes hurt… Bearable.
And that’s saying a lot.
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1. Trumpets (intro)
2. Wilderness
3. Be Warned
4. Amnesia
5. Penny Arcade
6. Corners
7. Buried in Snow
8. Up
9. Together
10. Last Wish
11. Winter’s Coming
12. Is it a Stone? Is it a Fish? |
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