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It seems faintly ridiculous that the debut release from a singer/songwriter who claims to have written over 300 songs, is a six-track mini-album. Though, given the beguiling melodies and deceptive complexity of these six simple songs, it's probably just as well. Any more would only serve to lessen the impact of 23-year-old Ed Harcourt's dark lullabies and the musical bric-a-brac. Musically nothing is out of the question for Harcourt. As long as it's understated and there is a grand piano in there somewhere, he can make a mesmerising lament out of it. And so it is that the demon chasing of "I've Become Mis-Guided" and &
It seems faintly ridiculous that the debut release from a singer/songwriter who claims to have written over 300 songs, is a six-track mini-album. Though, given the beguiling melodies and deceptive complexity of these six simple songs, it's probably just as well. Any more would only serve to lessen the impact of 23-year-old Ed Harcourt's dark lullabies and the musical bric-a-brac. Musically nothing is out of the question for Harcourt. As long as it's understated and there is a grand piano in there somewhere, he can make a mesmerising lament out of it. And so it is that the demon chasing of "I've Become Mis-Guided" and "He's Building A Swamp", respectively roll along to picked banjo and spaghetti western horns, while "Apple Of My Eye", a heart-warmingly hopeful song about loneliness, plays out to bluesy piano and the splutterings of a human beat-box. Such hobo tendencies conjure easy and obvious images of Tom Waits, Badly Drawn Boy and even Bono at his most yearning. To label Ed Harcourt as the next of any of those would, however, be to miss the fact that such masterful inventiveness and poetic soul baring mark Ed Harcourt as something rather unique: his own man. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: Heavenly
Release date: 13 November 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724352927524 UPC: 724352927524
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