First mind

"Nick Mulvey is clearly an extremely talented musician. It's obvious to all onlookers that he can weave exceptional music with an apparent ease, and it's something that translates to First Mind. It's subtle, perhaps not as affecting - at least on first listen - as you'd expect from a singer-songwriter armed with violins and an acoustic guitar, but what it lacks in heart-wrenching emotional gravitas, it makes up for with sonic ingenuity the UK hasn't seen in its charts in a long time. A total package of pop hooks, instrumental genius and gorgeous rhythms, Mulvey presents us with an intelligent record that demonstrates his passion for sounds outside of insular scenes".

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"As a percussionist in the Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet jazz collective, Nick Mulvey introduced us to the hang: a weird instrument that resembles a UFO made of two woks, and sounds like a softer, warmer steel drum. Its notes really do seem to hang in the air.And remarkably, he manages to coax some beautifully hang-like sounds from an acoustic guitar on his mesmerising debut as a solo singer-songwriter. Above rolling basslines, the odd electric beat and occasional blast of brass, he pings out harmonic high notes that float through the songs, sustained by a subtle, shimmering metallic resonance.Inspired by the trance music of North Africa the minimalist repetitions of Phillip Glass and the intricate and tender songwriting of Paul Simon and John Martyn, the 26-year-old developed a love of irregular rhythm at guitar school in Cuba and later studied Ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies".

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