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New album - Twenty-Six/12 - The Curator
Where The Stars Will Give Way To The Moming - The Curator Available on CD - here Sounds and feels like work of a lifetime. Teeming with musical variety, flourishes, insight and warmth. Already an album of 2018. Greet the new dawn ***** Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror The Winter Sun, the de facto title track is a beautifully orchestrated piece that richly evokes Robert Kirby's work with Nick Drake. The jazzy overtones of It Crackles (And it Spits) sound like Harold McNair. Where the Stars Will Give Way To The Moming is a grown up record for infantilized times **** Daryl Easlea, Record Collector ...[a] maverick, but a compelling one - whip-smart, brilliantly melodic but off the wall too, and with a nice shot of menace You need to Lay Your Burden Down, pour a drink and enjoy this record - it's like Samuel Pepys set to music for modem times. Just wonderful ...a fascinating listen, but one best enjoyed in solitude. For this is not light nor fluffy, this is thought-provoking, reflective and explorative. With a subtle hint of Peter Gabriel to his vocal, it is fair to say that Mumhy could have tackled a far lighter and more mainstream sound and pulled it off flawlessly. A prime example in the tender and touching Chloe, which could easily be transformed into a mainstream radio hit. However, that is not the function or intention of Murphy's craft. Wh. this may not be a record that appeals to everyone, it is one that is rewarding to those who retum to it for repeated listens. This is not one that you will listen to everyday, but one you should listen to anyway On first acquaintance with Where The Stars...you're engulfed with a torrent of words emoted convincingly and draped with often startling accompaniment fluctuating from what amounts to at least the effect of a full orchestra, adventurously scored and unafraid to fly in the face of harmonic concord — to the rock instrumentation that dominates the culminating 'Chloe' |
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