TOM MCRAE - King Of Cards reviews
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| MusicOMH.com |
Grime. Dubstep. Post-rock. In the midst of all this modernism, is there room for the singer-songwriter?
Lets face it - it's no longer enough to be a man with a red guitar, three chords, and the truth. These days, if you're going to be a white male with a few good choruses, you'd better have your gimmick ready. David Gray was boring as sin until he tripped over a laptop and began mainlining ProTools. Shame he went cold turkey soon afterwards......full text |
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| Crud Magazine |
| Hardest game in the world, this male singer-songwriter lark. Well, it’s not, perhaps, but right at the moment in a genre saturated with man-and-his-guitar mediocrity, where the that bloody boy Blunt has both energised the market (well, the supermarket at least) sales wise and sapped any impression of innovation from it like a dehydrated vampire with his bewildering omnipresence, it can be hard to achieve any height above the mainstream parapet of inoffensive soft focus....full text |
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| Drowned in sound |
Here’s a weak journalistic analysis for you: “Tom McRae’s fourth album is depressing.”
That tends to be your Average Joe’s reaction when they hear Tom McRae for the first time - he’s downbeat, he’s miserable, he’s depressing. Of course, that’s a ridiculous, limiting description of one of the UK’s most engaging singer-songwriters; a description given by an ignoramus. But here’s the thing - McRae’s latest record really is depressing, just not for the obvious reasons....full text |
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