You've not heard anything quite like this. Voice-wise the singer is a
like
a weird combination of Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman and that irritating guy
from Crash Test Dummies---but this is NOT the least bit grating.
Enthralling is more like it. "8 out of 10. This is the sort of album
than
twinkles melancholically in every dusty corner of its frazzled, expansive
sound, it¹s his voice that immediately drags you ear-first into their
bleak
yet beautiful world. You know the score, like Tom Waits trying his
best to
front Grandaddy and not scare the listener senseless.. Sure, theirs is a
world full of shattered hearts, even-more-shattered dreams and
desperation
to escape. But for the sheer gorgeousness of the music it creates, it¹s a
place worth visiting at the first chance."-DrownedInSound. "8 out of
10...
Schmotime is an assured and classy debut: the very things that go into
making the Britrock Œscene¹ these days spiky guitar noise, yelping
David
Byrne-isms are eschewed in favour of what makes the British British
resignation, resolve and a desert-dry wit. And Schmotime is therefore
guaranteed a place in my affection, if nothing else, and one can almost
imagine that being just sufficient for Absentee."-NoRipChord.
"It would be so easy for everything else on Schmotime to take a back
seat to
Dan Michaelson¹s voice. His extraordinarily deep, gruff vocals drip with
weariness, perfectly suiting a lot of the subjects on offer: drunken,
dead-end relationships; self-hatred; infidelity; and murder
investigations
among them. ³Hey Tramp,² proves that he can carry a song
himself‹making the
otherwise slightly charisma-free acoustic lament a captivating one.
The best thing about Schmotime though, is that it does so much more than
coast on his subterranean drawl‹and rarely sounds weary at all."-Stylus.
Definitely give this a close look!
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