dudley benson on Elsewhere by Graham Reid - browse 4 items of content tagged as 'dudley benson'.
Owen Pallett: Heartland (Domino)
If you didn't already know anything about Canadian Pallett, from just a couple of tracks here you'd pick him for an arranger more than a singer/songwriter. Here he unloads a container of electronics (strings, keyboards, loops) into his lyrically dense songs.
This is an album which can be as oppressive as it impressive.
Pallett has done...
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Tyler Ramsey: A Long Dream About Swiming Across the Sea (Shock)
In equal parts drawing from early acoustic Neil Young, ambient Brian Eno and a touch of the Jackson Browne singer-songwriter tradition, this album by the guitarist in Band of Horses (an Elsewhere favourite) redefines understatement.With a small and often barely present band (upright bass, drums, violin, cello, pedal steel etc) he eases his way...
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Dudley Benson: The Awakening (Golden Retriever)
The charming and slightly eccentric art music of Benson will be familiar to longtime Elsewhere people: his previous EPs have been posted here -- and now comes the long-anticipated debut album.
The former chorister indulges himself in some oddly appealing Elizabethan language as much as in sometimes gorgeous arrangements for voice,...
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The Tokey Tones: Butterfly, Caterpillar (2007)
It’s a common occurrence: just when popular music has got up a head of steam, some supportive critical consensus, and is charging off in a particular direction along comes something which, by going the opposite way, captures the imagination.
At the height of Day-Glo acid-dropping hippiedom along came the Velvet Underground in all...
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