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One of the reasons I stopped music blogging was because I started to get loads of e-mails from PRs.
At first, it was a real novelty to be sent a CD by a no-hoper band from Wales or Seattle or wherever. Soon, it became a bit of a pain to check my e-mail and find I was basically on the list of a load of PRs who had suddenly woken up to bloggers..and often didn’t realise I was from the UK so were introducing me to UK bands: ‘Hey..have you heard of Gomez’ etc.
It was all too similar to being a music journalist - and, with all respect, not a career I’d ever chose for myself, let alone a hobby.
However, still the e-mails come - and they are mostly ignored, except every so often (and not often enough) I get something from Hush records in Portland (home of the Decemberists). They have a neat scheme where they let bloggers download an album for a limited amount of time, and last week it was Laura Gibson’s If You Come To Greet Me.
And how utterly lovely it is. I know we’re getting a bit tired of singer songwriters these days, and she might be a little too Norah Jones for some tastes…but sometimes with music how you stumble across it is almost as important as what it actually is…and I feel everything I’ve been liking recently has just been too obvious to share…
Anyway - here she is on MySpace, sure you can work out the rest.