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GET CAPE WEAR CAPE FLY - Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
| Guardian | | With a moniker taken from a computer game and a laptop for a backing band, 20-year-old Sam Duckworth is a very modern social commentator. An angry young man fired by his desire to escape his Southend home, Duckworth documents the ills of ignorance, prejudice and mass consumption; his brand of folktronica shares more than just its Essex roots with Jamie Cullum and Billy Bragg....full text |
| | Dotmusic | | Southend's Sam Duckworth - aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - has had a short but meteoric rise from MySpace to the Radio 1 playlist, armed with an acoustic guitar, a beats-popping laptop and more than his fair share of teenage angst. Forget comparisons with Billy Bragg and, even more hilariously, The Clash, Sam's world is your typical late teen - unfocussed, politically confused, lots of shouting, but with the ability to pick at an acoustic guitar like an anteater with the scent of termites in its nostrils....full text |
| | Times Online | | The debut album from Southend’s Sam Duckworth (for he is Get Cape etc) is far smarter than its off-putting title suggests. His solo acoustic tunes sound like an emo singer without enough mates to form a band, but he dabbles convincingly in genres from drum’n’bass to post-rock, even evoking cult heroes such as Arab Strap and Tortoise. Duckworth is far more interesting than the average singer-songwriter. Or teenager....full text |
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