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JAMES YORKSTON - Year Of The Leopard
| MusicOMH.com | | It was an enlightening experience reviewing both Bonnie Prince Billy and James Yorkston in the same week. No, I never considered slitting my wrists due to their frankly less than euphoric songwriting, nor did I pine for a (more) receding hairline like the two of them, so I too can be a sensitive acoustic practitioner ploughing an essential furrow along folk-country-jazzy lines....full text |
| | Guardian | | Towards the end of the recent BBC documentary series Folk Britannia, Eliza Carthy complained that the current wave of critically acclaimed artists labouring under the unlovely banner of nu-folk or folktronica were making "ego music" - a description that might have led the viewer to believe those artists had taken the grand old traditions of British folk and turned them into something resembling the work of Robbie Williams, or perhaps Queen....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | In one of their reviews for a ‘Touch & Go Top 25’ feature, Pitchfork dubbed Nina Nastasia’s The Blackened Air “something rare: a folk record where you don’t know what’s coming next”. I suppose that’s fair - after all that’s what folk in it’s simplest form is, just one person with an unplugged guitar; even John Fahey, one of the genre’s great experimental figures, structured many of his songs around a kind of hypnotic repetition – it was hugely inventive, but you still knew what was coming next, more or less....full text |
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