Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Plush
More You Becomes You
(1998 – Drag City)
Lost ark of skeletal post-Jimmy Webb pop by hermit/perfectionist Liam Hayes.
Frizzy haired Bob Dylan lookalike Liam Hayes (left, with kid) is by all accounts a painstaking perfectionist who spends months working on and then scrapping material when it doesn’t meet his impossibly high standards. This album though, his first at full length, is incredibly sparse and unadorned, and finds Hayes alone at his piano, meandering through a suite of songs that sound like they were written and recorded in one afternoon. Engineered by Steve Albini, the production is echoey and warm, and at one point Hayes starts to chuckle when his reedy voice cracks as he strains to reach a high note. On close listening , the beauty and rock-solid craft of Liam’s tunes is revealed. He drifts through dreamy chord sequences that evoke Dennis Wilson, Jimmy Webb and Todd Rundgren, and his playful lyrics intrigue and entice. This lovely record, cruelly brief at thirty minutes, leaves you gasping for more, but gallingly, Hayes hasn’t released a note for almost six years.
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Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 23/02/2008
Further Listening
Todd Rundgren – Runt. The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren (Bearsville/Rhino)
Jimmy Webb – Archive (Warner)
Plush – Fed (After Hours)
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