POP / PSYCHEDELIA : SYD MATTERS
Thursday, 3. July 2008, 05:24:43
SYD MATTERS
SOMEDAY WE WILL FORESEE OBSTACLES (2005-2008 EDITION)
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'Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles' is Syd Matters' follow up to the warmly hued 'A Whisper and A Sigh'. In a similar bourbon marinated style to his debut, Syd Matters is a keen advocate of electronically pepped acoustica, overlaid throughout with his flocculent vocal style. Sounding like he really should be from some glistening enclave in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Syd Matter's is a real find; bringing together starry-eyed compositions that indulge in all the clichés (syrupy strings, homespun charm etc.) but somehow avoids the associated pitfalls. Sharing similarities with Calexico and Granddaddy, Syd Matters daringly opens with one of the less immediate songs on 'Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles...', introducing himself through plucked acoustica guitars and borderline Johnny Cash on the fulsome 'City Talks'. Next up is 'Obstacles', wherein Syd Matters' positively soars as a twinkly guitars circulate, the band laments and brings along a vocoder, whilst 'To All Of You' is the kind of string lashed beauty that hordes of alt.country devotees would sell a kidney for.
1. City Talks
2. Obstacles
3. To All Of You
4. Icare
5. Someday Sometimes
6. Passe Muraille
7. Watcher
8. Lost Bird
9. Flow Backwards
10. English Way
11. Middle Class Men
12. Motion
13. What Are You Looking At?
Bonus tracks
Live At Théâtre Des Pavés
14. Passe Muraille
15. Battle Of Olympus
16. Obstacles
17. To All Of You
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password: MOODSWINGS
Héhé, un excellent artiste, vraiment. Et si tu ne l'a pas encore fait, va les voir en live, ça dépote sévère !
Autour de Paris c'est pas dur de trouver des dates, ils jouent assez souvent...
By anonymous user, # 3. July 2008, 16:54:22
Merci pour l'info Max !
By STEFANfromPARIS, # 4. July 2008, 03:02:12