Adem: nice, but…
…I’ve been listening to far, far too much lovely modern acoustic music recently and while it’s all very lovely, the deluge of gentle but ever so slightly tortured stuff is starting to blur into one long angst-ridden acoustic whinge. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
(Then again having just listened to Dogs Die in Hot Cars, I sense the whole 80s/ post-punk revival might be reaching saturation point as well).
I really appreciated Nick’s suggestion of Paul O’Reilly. The one download on his site, Beautiful, is well worth a listen, and more than lives up to it’s name. But in the end: it’s still more one man and a guitar stuff.
The new(ish) Ron Sexsmith arrived in the post yesterday. I haven’t listened to anything by him since his excellent first album. It’’s not a million miles from his earlier work: but it’s still distinctively his. The only person he sounds vaguely like (IMHO) is Ed Harcourt, who’s also on the album. In fact, I think him and Ed Harcourt should actually merge to reduce overheads, save confusion, and collaborate to produce the definitive modern troubadour album.