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Artist:	PART TIMER
Title:	Part Timer
Label:	MOTEER (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MOTEER 007CD

This is the debut album from John McCaffrey, one half of UK-based Clickits. It's safe to say that all good things come to the patient among us, and John McCaffrey has created a record for those calmer moments; the times in life where all that's left to do is to sit and watch the world go by, to realize where we are and take in the sounds around us. Part Timer is a time capsule of a record, a decomposing wooden box of long-forgotten English folk cassettes buried for countless years before being rediscovered and then reworked all over again as McCaffrey has seen fit. There is the hand of a master at work, engineering music that could be as old as time and weaving his influences in and out of each track. We hear fingerprints of The Books or Jan Jelinek and his warm vignettes -- but McCaffrey's touch is his own, and the quaint worlds he effortlessly conjures up could come from his mind alone. Featuring the vocals of Nicola Hodgkinson of Empress, the album's defining moment comes on "We Made A Big Mistake," which sees Hodgkinson's dulcet tones accompanied by distant piano and decaying glitch-laden percussion. It sounds as peaceful as a half-heard lullaby, and McCaffrey's skilled production seems perfectly matched with the like-minded vocalist. Around the album's halfway point we reach the Wild West lament of "Sad Little Dennis," a cinematic horn-laden ode to sun-baked lands and creaking architecture. And this is the true power of Part Timer, that within such a small space of time he can create such a rich and visual experience, all it requires is patience.

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