Label: EMI/Parlophone
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 724353156022
EAN: 0724353156022
ASIN: B000059N0M
Release Date: 2001-03-30
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Artist: Matthew Jay
Label: EMI/Parlophone Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 724353156022 EAN: 0724353156022 ASIN: B000059N0M Release Date: 2001-03-30 |
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Album Description
Like Badly Drawn Boy, Matthew Jay wrenches beautifully eccentric melodies from acoustic-rooted sensibilities. But like Elliot Smith there's a very natural, unassuming talent of great proportions here.Album Details
The 22 Year Old Welsh Singer/Songwriter's Debut Full Length CD. Sweet, Melodic, Timeless Folk/Pop Songs Based around Matthew's Gentle Acoustic Guitar Playing. His Previous EPs have Drawn Comparisons to Nick Drake, Belle and Sebastian and Elliot Smith.Customer Reviews:
a good surprise........2001-06-04
and it was.
smart, melodic, irresistable songwriting - tunes that i'd find myself thinking about well after a listening. and music that's just as fresh after many, many repeated listenings.
groundbreaking? nope. radical and edgy? no, again. but fresh nonetheless.
further proof that sometimes the best suprises aren't prefabricated pseudo-revolutionary music, nor that 'cereal disguised as music' that we're inundated with these days.
try matthew jay - you'll like him. a lot.
Forget the comparisons - a fresh new voice.......2001-05-15
Jay's clear, high voice (rather reminiscent to A-ha's Morten Harket) and appealing choruses serve notice of someone who could potentially make it big. Thanks in part to the excellent production, he strikes just the right balance between thoughtfulness and rowdiness to make Draw acceptable at any time of day. For example, You're Always Going Too Soon and Only Meant To Say are as good as anything you'll hear this year.
Admittedly, he isn't doing anything startlingly new and the standard dips in the middle, but overall this is an upbeat, fully realised affair that will take some beating.
Very Polished Debut!.......2001-05-09
The resemblance to Smith on this c.d. is almost uncanny.His vocal style is so similar that it's remarkable.The lyrics are excellent too-generally pretty mellow but they can also be very hard hitting especially in the opening song.It may have acoustic leanings but he uses a full conventional backing band on most of the tracks.He lays all the acoustic and electric guitars but there is also drums,bass,keyboards and piano to be heard.His vocals are fairly gentle but he's pretty accomplished at hitting the low notes and also comfortably reaching a nice falsetto.It's pretty much along the lines of folk/blues.Many of the songs are catchy,but there are also songs of greater depth that only reward the listener after repeated listens.The stand out tracks are song two,Let Your Shoulder Fall and the next track with it's beautiful harmonies in the chorus You're Always Going Too Soon.The 4th song has some excellent electric guitar effects combined with acoustic guitar backing.Then it reaches the more up tempo chorus which you find you wished would just last that little bit longer.Once again the harmonies are really good.The sixth song sounds really like a song The La's might have had if they were still going-again it's a top quality song.The next song is full of shimmering and haunting vocals effects that remind me a of the quieter moments off Doves last c.d.-it's a short but interesting instrumental with a guest female vocalist humming in the background.Track 9 Remember This Feeling has seems to be constantly gaining momentum that starts off very interesting,but unfortunately it's a track that fails to deliver on it's early promise.Track 10-Become Yourself is as loud as this c.d. gets and certainly would not belong in this N.A.M. genre.The chorus fairly rocks with no acousitc to be heard and it's another of my favourite tracks,especially as it's such a good change in mood and sound.Some of the vocals definitely sound like there is a Mc Cartney influence and this is eveident on this track and even more so on the next.The start even sounds like the keyboard of Macca's "Wonderful Christmas Time" song.
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