James Yuill “Movement In a Storm” – my album of the week
James Yuill might have started out as “folktronica’s next great hope“, but already then his productions were a little bit to much dance oriented to fit just that one label – and they still are on his new album “Movement In a Storm”. With “Foreign Shore” and “Wild Goose at Night” he delivers the only real folk songs while all his other tracks are closer to the tradition of house and disco, such as “First in Line” with it’s chopped up vocals and compressed synths. One of the most interesting tracks is the very experimental and noisy “My Fears”, while “Sing Me a Song” is as close to Yuill’s heroes Postal Service as you can get without copying. A really well crafted and diverse pop album.
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on June 9th, 2010 Dead Child Star “Cold Hands, Warm Heart” – my album of the week « LIGANOVA said:
[...] the Canadian band Dead Child Star fuses electronic sounds with folk aesthetics just as skilfully as James Yuill would. The spectrum of the emotions evoked is equally broad, spanning from melancholy to childish [...]