Shells Rec.
Sons Of Noel & Adrian (UK,2008)****°
Sons of Noel & Adrian’s style approach is a brilliant combination of elements, performed, composed, improvised and sung with great honesty and emotionality, led by a male lead voice which is very comparable in nature and quality to C.O.B. for the sad, poor men’s voice, in this case ‘poor’ like being abandoned in its true nature, in a relationship for instance, which brings the soul back to it’s Job’s essence of honest feelings, difficult to find always in tune with all circumstances, and hard personal decisions by others. Different to COB there has been taken much more time and space for semi-improvised arrangements, consisting more often of a core of many beautiful instrumental parts of finger picking guitar duets (sometimes with mandolin), and added with hand driven percussion like tambourine and earth drum, with some flute, which can add surreal heights and accents (or an occasional trumpet), and touches of piano, which in combination with the guitars and other arrangements has some minimalist touch to it, while following foot clap-rhythmic hypnotic evolutions. Also violin (oscillating or multi-layering) comes with this, as well as some violin/cello based chamber-folk arrangements, colouring the arrangements even more, sometimes with elements of harmonium or harmonica. The vocals are always beautiful, which can be dual vocals with one or two male vocals or with extra female vocalists. This can become a psychfolk classic, and should also be released on LP. Released as a digipack cd.
-Best acidfolk album of 2008-
