Album review: Adrian Crowley
Adrian Crowley
Long Distance Swimmer
Label: Tin Angel Records
Website: www.adriancrowley.com
Rating: 4 out of 5
With Long Distance Swimmer, Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley adds his name to the canon of modern singer-songwriters producing brilliant, well-crafted and beautiful records.
Particular highlights include Bless Our Tiny Hearts, a delicate lullaby with melodies that flutter and dance like moths in the moonlight. Star Of The Harbour is sonorous and tender, with gorgeous strings and a beautiful guitar part.
Victoria’s eerie strings and mournful chorus create a dark soundscape, giving this record a depth of feeling that lingers on, haunting like a half-remembered dream. The wild tumult of Harmony Row builds on this dark feeling, adding gothic shades of traditional folk death songs, of Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads.
While Crowley’s style recalls Nick Drake and Fionn Regan, he succeeds nonetheless in carving out a particular niche and creating his own sound. Water and nautical themes, both musical and lyrical, abound.
Like Willy Mason before him, Adrian Crowley betrays a deep connection to water. Thankfully, metaphors of tempestuous seas, mysterious depths and subtle danger are perfectly suited to an album rich with hidden treasure.
Long Distance Swimmer
Label: Tin Angel Records
Website: www.adriancrowley.com
Rating: 4 out of 5
With Long Distance Swimmer, Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley adds his name to the canon of modern singer-songwriters producing brilliant, well-crafted and beautiful records.
Particular highlights include Bless Our Tiny Hearts, a delicate lullaby with melodies that flutter and dance like moths in the moonlight. Star Of The Harbour is sonorous and tender, with gorgeous strings and a beautiful guitar part.
Victoria’s eerie strings and mournful chorus create a dark soundscape, giving this record a depth of feeling that lingers on, haunting like a half-remembered dream. The wild tumult of Harmony Row builds on this dark feeling, adding gothic shades of traditional folk death songs, of Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads.
While Crowley’s style recalls Nick Drake and Fionn Regan, he succeeds nonetheless in carving out a particular niche and creating his own sound. Water and nautical themes, both musical and lyrical, abound.
Like Willy Mason before him, Adrian Crowley betrays a deep connection to water. Thankfully, metaphors of tempestuous seas, mysterious depths and subtle danger are perfectly suited to an album rich with hidden treasure.
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