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Artist:	BROSSEAU, TOM
Title:	Cavalier
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FAT 062CD

2007 release. "Following 2006's introductory Empty Houses Are Lonely (which compiled highlights and hard to find recordings from Tom's career to date), Cavalier was produced by PJ Harvey collaborator and Producer John Parish at Toy Box studio in Bristol, UK over the space of a week in May 2007. A huge fan of Tom's music after witnessing him play live, John augments Tom's songs with an array of subtle, sympathetic instrumentation and / or recording technique but never allows himself to encroach on Tom's songs. Providing deft flourishes, underlining or embellishing what is already there, he pulls off the neat trick of expanding or magnifying the songs while keeping the spotlight firmly on Tom's voice and guitar. Cavalier is Tom's most personal record to date, and the recordings are referred to by Tom as an apocalypse of the self -- yet they retain all the humility, tenderness and beauty of Tom's best work."

Artist:	BROSSEAU, TOM
Title:	Posthumous Success
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FAT 081CD

"Tom Brosseau's third full-length for Fatcat marks a huge stylistic shift away from the spare, acoustic arrangements of his previous releases. Two producers, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade) and Ethan Rose (Small Sails), helming alternate tracks -- along with a small army of guest musicians -- help Brosseau flesh and clothe his songs' sturdy skeletons, lending them breath, presence and limb-stretching immediacy. Unchanged, however, are Brosseau's earnest wit, near-unearthly emotional grasp, and captivating, vibrato-soaked voice. With Posthumous Success (named after a chapter from a biography of Albert Camus), Brosseau brings his best group of songs into a sonically rich environment, and the result is buoyant, well-crafted, and sprawlingly lovely -- his most accomplished and accessible effort to date."

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