Feather and Stone

Artist: Tom Baxter
Label: Sbme Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5099751746898
ASIN: B0002SV4NM

Release Date: 2005-01-20

Feather and Stone

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Tracks:

My Declaration
This Boy
Under the Thumb
Girl from the Hills
Moon and Me
Day in Verona
All Comes True
Almost There
Don't Let Go
Scorpio Boy

Customer Reviews:

held the whole theatre spellbound -so intense.......2007-01-27

Bought this CD after seeing him as a support act he just held the whole audience totally spellbound- I havent seen anyone with that kind of emotional intensity plus fantastic songwriting in a long time

Coma and drone..........2006-09-07

Huge up-surge lately in the so called 'singer songwriter', unleashing wave after wave of horrible trite acoustic guitar wielding wannabes off of MySpace and into your living room. Tom Baxter's offering Feather And Stone, at least has some integrity to it. more folky kind of approach than an attempt at pure pop tune writing, but my God gettin to the end of this album is one dull and painful struggle. There are superb songs here - but sadly, only 3. My declaration, the moon and me, and under the thumb (which almost - ALMOST make buying the album worth while - but not quite) stand alone, welded together with some of the dreariest monotonal slooooooow slothful and dreary songs I have ever heard. It might be your cup of tea, but certainly a cup of tea probably stands more chance of keeping you up than this..

Hare-Chasing Guitar Lines and Suicide Notes.......2006-05-19

While it may be redundant (and thus, pointless) to review this album in the wake of other sensitive male guitar-weilding folkies (James Blunt et al), British singer-songwriter Tom Baxter deserves a nod of acknowledgement - for reinventing the power-ballad. Before you choke on your own vomit at the very thought of that notion (understandable, being a supreme hater of power-ballads myself), let me place emphasis on the fact that Baxter is a singer-songwriter and not a corporate composer of the Diane Warren ilk, who's sentimental power-sap peddled onto the likes of Celine Dion many have come to despise. Baxter, for his part, has taken the grandoise dynamics of that particular genre and proportionalized it into the miniscale level of a subway busker (albeit, a busker with the backing of a full band). The results are rather...charming.

"The Moon and Me" sports a string section buried deep in the mix, flushing through the acoustic arrangements and only gurgling up through the robust thrums of the bass and guitar at the cresendo in the last third of the song. The piano clinks along like the dropping of ice cubes in martini glasses and the lyrical suicide-note escapes the listener.
Elsewhere, as on "Almost There", baxter plays around with his vocal range - a bruised whisper that gives way to an earthquake-splitting wail. It doesn't work completely, as the limitations in his range are revealed, but the sense of desperation in his voice and the urgency with which he inflects it with is certainly captured.
"Don't Let Go" is the album's swan song with violin slashes that stab forth, puncturing the pop-production gloss that tries to contain them. The song in its first half lies dormant, like a dead animal on the forest floor, then arouses from its death-sleep, slowly breathing back passion, rage and a lusty sense of purpose into its lifeless body. The drums pound, the strings murder and Baxter's guitar flits and sprints ahead like a hare out-running a foxhunt. The song dies a brutal, loud and handsome death, its end climaxing to a delirious, crashing halt. Baxter is bled dry and the hare has been caught.

It's easy to over look Baxter these days with the corporate glut of Blunt wannabes saturating the market. But Baxter has the chops to outlive the trend. If you can look past the prejudice that has somewhat been justly aimed at guitar-based songwriters these past three years, you may discover a worthy pupil of the Nick Drake school of music. And besides, I can't think of anyone better than Baxter who could give Diane Warren the a**-kicking she deserves. This album's enough to make Warren eat her fingers off and never doom the world with another sling of Simon Cowell-endorsed mush.

white feathers.......2006-04-27

This album seems to be an exercise in trying to annoy people who like Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake. Or perhaps, a nudging, industry cash-in on people who like Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake. Meandering acoustic folky twiddles like 'The Moon And Me' bump Grace-lessly into sub-Lloyd-Webber showtunes, with surface-skimming lyrical self-analyses like "my smile won't smile and my laugh won't laugh"... You what? Perhaps the album should be called 'God! I am SO sensitive!'

On 'Almost There' Baxter does his best 'Stars In Their Eyes' Buckley impression, imitating tone, vocal cadences, even the chord changes are grabbed from 'Lover, You Should've Come Over'... At this point, it seems kindest to advise Mr. Baxter to put on a white V. neck T.shirt, grow his hair long and start a covers act.

There is no point in this album whatsoever.

This Guy is AWESOME!!.......2005-11-06

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Well this has got be the album of 2004!! without a doubt, brilliantly crafted songs one after another, ranging from beautiful ballads to uplifting rock, Tom Baxter does step rather heavily in to Jeff Buckley territory in both his vocal and on stage performance, which is no bad thing because he manages the stage and this Album with similar gravitas as per the late Mr Buckley. The album is possibly a bit more polished than it should or could have been, however it is still a brilliant listen and is so very highly recommended to fans of coldplay, Travis and Buckley et al. Buy this and you wont be disappointed, look out also for the cd singles as they have some amazing b sides to them, oh and of course if the man is touring near you make sure you catch him live, he's one to watch for 2005-2006 for sure!!

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