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Artist:	BETHELL, CRAIG
Title:	A Day Full of You, A Night Tired of Me
Label:	INFRACTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INFX 026CD

"A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me is the debut album by ex-Locust vocalist Craig Bethell. The album displays a plaintive songwriting style that unashamedly croons its way through a set of eleven varied songs influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker. Bethell's vocals are late night deliveries, a haunting idiom of the post-modern torch song. Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Mojave 3, Sing Sing) lends production duties and evokes an atmosphere of Low-era Bowie, (as on the instrumental overture of 'December'), employs a careful use of Rhodes piano & subtle strings ('Bad Blood'), as well as vintage synthesizer, distant harp motifs and brushed drums ('Finding The Light' & 'History Repeats Itself'). London-based songwriter/singer Craig Bethell has sporadically written, recorded and performed his songs since 1983. His working life has largely been devoted to magazine publishing. Through demand from different quarters (die-hard Locust fans, new fans via MySpace, etc.), Craig was encouraged to revisit the best of hitherto unreleased material from past sessions with Van Hoen. These works were revised, re-recorded, remixed and revamped, along with some completely new material, to make up A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me, an album many years in the making."

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