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Source: Music Guru
Subject: Demo review

This is carefully crafted, and very good.

These here tracks all count as ‘soundscapes’. A lovely, simplistic sound prevails over the three songs, sonic shards of light in a darkened alley that illuminate despair as it echoes down that well trudged melancholic path. The title track, ‘Torch song’ builds up with ease from a one or two line hook, and dissolves beautifully amidst piano, and then guitar. Cyclical, and original, it paves the way beautifully for ‘Bobby’. More of a ‘song’, in the traditional mould, the piano here sounds like a rippling puddle, through which the acoustic guitar and voices are refracted before they shanty along in the verse/chorus style before effectively it all dissolves, becomes a cacophony.

‘Memory tree’ could be a lullaby. I picture mobiles above a cot, and the world through an open window. The thematic stuff revolves in the breeze: hand to mouth existence, emotional fractals, and the pointless inevitability of it all. ‘Don’t you forget me’ is the closing refrain of a record which is stylistically consistent, and lovingly nurtured. A must-listen record. Simply mind blowing how easy it is to get into for something with such a slow and spaced out feel.

Mike Roberts

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