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In music there are entertainers, pioneers and thinkers. Tom McRae is most definitely a thinker. His self-titled debut album is a neatly laid out collection of those issues that most concern him: life, people's attitudes and society's flaws, masterfully dissected and examined in intimate detail with only tentative acoustic guitars and the occasional string quartets. This is the sound of a loner, a misfit observing from the outside a world that he neither understands nor particularly likes. From "End Of The World News" ("Driving in your fabulous car/listening to the music that reminds you/you used to be young")
In music there are entertainers, pioneers and thinkers. Tom McRae is most definitely a thinker. His self-titled debut album is a neatly laid out collection of those issues that most concern him: life, people's attitudes and society's flaws, masterfully dissected and examined in intimate detail with only tentative acoustic guitars and the occasional string quartets. This is the sound of a loner, a misfit observing from the outside a world that he neither understands nor particularly likes. From "End Of The World News" ("Driving in your fabulous car/listening to the music that reminds you/you used to be young") to the damning "Bloodless" ("We're the oil in this machine/and this machine is going wrong"), his morbid observations, delivered with passion and confidence, are astute, logical and a little too much to handle all at once. But McRae, for all his disturbing bouts of realism, knows how to write a touching tune, a tear jerking melody and a gorgeously simple song, and thinking aside, it's these ingredients that make his debut album mesmerising. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: Db
Release date: 15 September 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0743217834920 UPC: 766486863828
Tags: English (1), 2000 (1), Singer-songwriter (1), Awesome (1), Mel (1), Album (1), Alt (1), Unknown Label (1), Eponymous (1), Solo Artist (1), Bought 2008 (1)
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