Browse by Artist: GRAVENHURST

Artist:	GRAVENHURST
Title:	Flashlight Seasons
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	WARP 120CD

"Flashlight Seasons is the stunning new album from Gravenhurst, aka Nick Talbot, whose music chronicles tales from the darker side of life with a clarity of sound, voice and lyricism that is at times breathtaking, at others shocking, but never less than entirely involving. Gravenhurst's dark romanticism and lush production values call to mind such artists as Simon and Garfunkel, Jeff Buckley and My Bloody Valentine, while his delicate voice and picked guitar strings recall Nick Drake. Yet though he and Drake inhabit a largely pastoral setting, Gravenhurst's world is an altogether stranger one."

Artist:	GRAVENHURST
Title:	Fires In Distant Buildings
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	WARP 132CD

"Multi-instrumentalist songwriter Nick Talbot exhibits a shark-like inability to stay still. Over the course of four albums the Gravenhurst moniker has charted the waters from bedroom melancholy, through acid-folk murder balladry and now, sprawling experimental rock music, suggesting influences as diverse as My Bloody Valentine, Slint, Richard Thompson and the Velvet Underground. Complex, filmic arrangements ('Down River') keep company with literate, romantic songwriting ('Nicole') and hypnotic, kraut-rock workouts ('The Velvet Cell'). The whole 50-odd minutes is suffused with competing themes of violence and deliverance, paranoia and epiphany, squalor and ascendance, peaking with the horrifying 'Animals.'"

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