Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Paul Duncan
Be Careful What You Call Home
(Hometapes, 2005)
Second album of ambient folk beauty from 25-year-old Brooklynite.
Got it for Christmas 2005, stuck it on the iPod, forgot about it. And then… slowly, it started to creep in. Brushed jazz drums, acoustic guitar, Bryter Later-esque strings, and in the middle of it all, Brooklyn-based Texan Duncan's soft Lou Barlowesque tenor, drifting in and out of mix, the way extraneous noises bleed into daytime dreams. At first, I couldn’t date it, despite occasional synth swirls, and comparisons to Rundgren or early Badly Drawn Boy. Some lost classic from 2001? 1974? But Eno/Talk Talk fan Duncan’s narcoleptic storytelling and distant nighttime sounds soon took hold. Listening to the album as a whole, instrumentals of rainfall, cars-on-gravel and windchime-static breaking up the misty, lulling songs, it sounds, well, right – calming, assured, beautiful – and you can see why the man himself would reckon, as he suggests on his myspace, that his music sounds like this. As the man sings on blissful opener, In A Way: “In a time of wordy music/ Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Aaaaah!"
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 28/10/2008
Further Listening
Paul Duncan – To An Ambient Hollywood (Hometapes, 2003)
Jim O’Rourke – Eureka (Domino, 1999)
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