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• Shoegaze – despite years of lithium addiction and inoperable bad hair – is thriving in Bristol. Certainly judging by this debut solo album from Hi-Fiction Science guitarist McKeown, anyway. Sadness, jangle and ghostly multi-tracked vocals reign majestically across these nine tracks – from opening cut ‘From NASA To None’, which recalls a lower-fi, less droned-up Jesus & Mary Chain, and the Flaming Lips-y ‘Poacher’s Feet’ to soft and sinister murder ballad ‘Bones’ (“Of all the girls that went missing that year/Didn’t think that you would be missed”) that nods to Elliott Smith and Jose Gonzalez, it’s all pleasingly narcotic. If you like Curve and Swervedriver and getting caught in the rain, this could be the fella to see you through the rest of the winter. (Anna Britten)
http://jamesmckeown.bandcamp.com Copyright Anna Britten 2011 |
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‘James McKeown’ (LP, self-released)


















































































































































































































