Musik / folkemusik

If wishes were horses


Anmeldelser (1)


fRoots

2016 April

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Colin Irwin

2016 April

"A trillion welcomes to [Drever's] first solo album for six years which finds him in company with guitar master Ian Carr, bassist Euan Burton, Admiral Fallow singer/drummer Louis Abbott and singer Yolanda Quartey on an album of his own songs which expands his horizons in unexpected ways ... Most of it is easy on the ear and some of it surprisingly poppy, while playing around with rhythms given a leading role high in the mix ... "Capernaum" has the spirit of a 1950s Sun Studios rockabilly track; amid innocently enthusiastic brush strokes, "Shipwrecked" bounds along like sophisticated skiffle; "Going To The North" is a would-be "Homeward Bound"-type train song given a galloping setting that makes it sound like they're all on horseback; and the languid intro to "Longest Day" suggests Willie Nelson will come it at any moment as Drever turns his hand to what some bright spark might term as Caledonia Americana ... It's a long way from Lau, that's for sure".