Here’s one I missed earlier…
Many thanks to James at Hooverdust for steering me to Micah P Hanson’s And The Gospel Of Progress, which completely passed me by when it appeared - to much acclaim - at the end of last year.
How can I have missed it, you ask, when it was even in Manchester Online’s shortlist for Album of 2004.? How indeed.
It’s a very pleasantly dark bit of folk/ alt.county - produced by The Earlies (so it says here) - which chugs, growls and soars in all the right places. He’s only 22 - which is deeply depressing, but I’m getting used to that.
According to the sticker, someone from the Times gave it 5/5 and said it is ‘up there with Dylan’s Idiot Wind’. Oh, dear - yet more Dylan comparisons.
But don’t be put off by that…it’s all very wonderful in its own right.
There’s a couple of mp3s for download here.