We can be as biased as we chose... partly because at Drift we do whatever we like and that is the bottom line... but also as R.G. frequently shares the same office as us and we like to stay on his good side!
The Album is hand numbered (1000 units), hand painted and hand packed by the band literally across the room from us... they are things of beauty. Lofi Americana and Roots with big swooning pop sensibility... all under pinned by the sincerest song writing. Very much at home in the Loose Music stable, "Farewell, My Lovely" tips a reference to the Laurel Canyon heydays of Crosby Stills & Nash and Gram Parsons, but also draws on contemporary influences like Sparklehorse, Ryan Adams and Granddaddy, moving from sparse acoustic songs through orchestral flourishes and violent guitar eruptions.
This tangibly focused, warming and reclusive record seems like Blighty's answer to Bon Iver - Mojo
These mournful ballads emerge, gritty but glowing. The slow, quiet songs are usefully interrupted by moments of electric guitar mayhem, but nothing is allowed to get in the way of Morrison's addictive voice. - * * * * The Sunday Times
Tremendous - from pastoral folk to alt. country wig out * * * * Uncut
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy meets The Band. Thrilling. High quality Americana from the wild West Country * * * * Q
