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RICHARD SWIFT - Dressed Up For The Letdown
| Uncut | Connoisseurs of grand American pop will love Richard Swift. Like the young
Van Dyke Parks or Harry Nilsson, his baleful, piano-led cabaret sounds like an echo from some lost golden age. But it’s not quite as cosy as all that. Injecting the funky feel of Paul McCartney’s solo debut with the mordant wit of an off-Broadway Ray Davies, the wonderful Dressed Up For The Letdown finds Swift surveying the abject failure of his early career....full text |
| | TinyMixTapes | | Call me old-fashioned, but sometimes I just want to hear a great song with a lovely verse, catchy chorus, and, if possible, some thoughtful instrumentation. In this day and age, that may be a tall order, so call me a dreamer too. Well boys and girls, I’m writing to tell you that dreams do come true for those who seek....full text |
| | NME | | The hit of last year's South By Southwest signing scrum, with his third album, bubble-permed wonderchild Richard Swift easily justified all the A&R hype. This multi-instrumentalist, producer and film-maker might've grown up on a farm deep in rural Minnesota, but here Swift's head is stranded halfway in time between the Prohibition era and LA's Laurel Canyon in about 1970: 'Dressed Up For The Letdown' comprises 10 tracks of sepia-tinged slightlydelic pop that are as affecting as they are jaunty....full text |
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