FINDLAY BROWN - Separated By The Sea Review

I must admit, friends, that I did not go into listening to Findlay Brown with an open mind. The single Come Home has appeared on a Mastercard ad, he is signed to a label that is also home to that other great 'sensitive' sell out, Jose Gonzalez, and he's from Yorkshire. There hasn't been a great musician from there since Jake Thackray....full text FINDLAY Brown shares labels with another guitar-based “sensitive” singer-songwriter, Jose Gonzalez, and is similarly hotly-anticipated as an artist in his own right.

His music draws instant comparisons with the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake, The Beatles and Tim Buckley. And one of his songs, Come Home, is currently winning him more awareness thanks to the current Mastercard advertising campaign....full text It would be easy to dismiss Yorkshire folkster Findlay Brown as just another chancer with the right sound at the right time. Thanks to the TV advertising agencies' current penchant for folk, he has followed the likes of kindred spirits Jose Gonzalez (Sony Bravia), Joanna Newsom (Orange) and Vashti Bunyan (T-Mobile) by providing the hauntingly melancholic Come Home as the soundtrack to MasterCard's Christmas ad....full text