Jack Cheshire Set to Release Second Album
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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On the 9th of May acclaimed singer/songwriter Jack Cheshire is to release his second album, ‘Copenhagen’, on Safety First Records. You can see a video for ‘Paperhouse’ embedded below.
With ‘Copenhagen’, Jack Cheshire has supplemented the sweetly-slurred melodies, kaleidoscopic finger-picking and intricately-layered musicbox psychedelia of his 2008 debut, ‘Allow It To Come On’, with shuffling, almost free-form drums, plucked and bowed double bass, heavenly melodies and an uncompromising sound and vision that sweep from micro to macro and from introspection to constellation.
The results invite comparisons to ‘OK Computer’, ‘Forever Changes’ and 'The Hour of The Bewliderbeast', to follow previous references made to the likes of Devendra Banhart, Beck, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake.
Jack Cheshire has music to write, he has a need to express himself and as long as he is able to do so he will - whether you’re listening or not. If you do care to listen however then you will find yourself beguiled by velvety tones and led through a meandering maze of lyrically emotive experiences and laconic philosophical commentary.
A singer songwriter in the old school sense, an artist who sings his own mind, his own heart as he feels it; which is what gives his music its own distinctive sound, defined only by what he is feeling at any one time and delivered raw and unadulterated in an unaffected manner.
Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing the vulnerability of Jack’s vocal style might make some miss a reality however - the reality of a man who lives, loves and leaves as he pleases and will not, in the final telling, be made to feel obliged to anyone. Copenhagen is an album that demands and rewards attention and ought to get it as it gives it...
You can catch the talented singer at either of the following two live dates:
May 14th - View 2 Gallery Mathew Street, Liverpool
June 7th - The Slaughtered Lamb, London
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