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| zeitgeist | Mar 17 2007, 09:16 AM Post #1 |
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EMILY SLADE - Fretless![]() Normally when my mate starts off a conversation with "I know you don't like folk music, but...", I bolt like a stag caught in a headlight. However, forewarned is forearmed, and thanks to a judicious use of shackles and deadbolt locks, I was forced into listening to this, and it is truly remarkable. Weaned as I was on a diet of the McCalmans and Silly Wizard, I still flinch at the site of Arran (the sweater not the island), but yet another stereotype lies dashed upon the floor of my prejudices. Mind you, kicking things off with a Dan Fogelberg song could be regarded as cheating, what with my love of "Captured Angel", but it's the self penned numbers here that leave me stunned. In particular, "My Love Lies", one of the most beautiful songs I have heard in years, and the modernistic folk of "Towerblocks and Lullabies" reclaims folk music for the truly dispossessed. Could have done without "I Don't Like Mondays" though. Always hated it. However, with nary a hey nonny no or a fiddle de de, I have been hooked, lined and sinkered. A vocal clarity combined with some sparse but appropriate instrumentation makes this one of the years essential albums.
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