Album review - Seafieldroad
Seafieldroad -’There are No Maps for This Part Of The City’ (Biphonic)
Seafieldroad is the project of Andrew Eaton, lead singer with Scotland’s Swimmer One. Having released two albums with them, he has unleashed his debut solo record, and it is unquestionably the best thing he has ever done.
Different from the electro-stylings of Swimmer One (which is not to detract their work over the last decade), I perhaps shouldn’t start off by comparing it to other albums, but when you see the ones I do, you will understand:
Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. The Blue Nile’s Hats. Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure. Yes. That good, that special. In a word: pastoral. Working with orchestral scoring from Pete Harvey (Meursault, the Leg), this album is sublime from the opening and wonderfully titled ‘Brian Wilson Karaoke’ to the closing ‘Fucking Manchester’ (which, despite its’ title, is still heartbreaking).
Released at the end of November, I’m hoping that, nonetheless, this will appear on the year’s end best of lists, because it really deserves to be there.
****1/2
There Are No Maps For This Part Of The City is out now on Biphonic.
that is RATHER lovely. Looking forward to the release
Trust me…you will NOT be disappointed
This album is stunningly beautiful.
The piano playing is exquisite,the vocals by Andrew and harmonies by Laura are sublime and there are many moments of evocative,powerful drama.
My personal favourites are “Hanging”,which makes my skin tingle(in a nice way),”Advocate’s Close” for the fascinating,complex piano playing and “Feeble Jesus” for the gorgeous additional vocals of Laura Cameron Lewis.
Get yourself to Bandcamp and buy it now!
So glad I stumbled upon this post, lovely stuff. Also, new band of the day on the Guardian website today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/01/new-band-seefieldroad
Yes, it’s a great album, I just made a little review on my blog and made a link for here. I also added your blog in my blog roll. I am always interested to know new stuff from Scotland (and other places of the world)…
My review
Sorry, for my english, it’s not my mother tongue!
From Belgium!
Graham -cheers for the tip and glad you like it
Mmasrsupilami - no problem, my french is poor and my Flemish non-existent!