William_D_Drake-Revere_Reach-Promo-2015-NJS

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2015-07-08

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Artist      : William D. Drake
Album       : Revere Reach
Year        : 2015
Genre       : Alternative
Quality     : 243kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source      : CD
Playtime    : 0h 45m
Size        : 82.87mb
Label       : Onomatopoeia Records
Catalognr   : HUM14

Tracklist:
01. Distant Buzzing                                              3:26
02. In Converse                                                  4:18
03. Lifeblood                                                    2:58
04. Be Here Steryear                                             4:48
05. A Husk                                                       5:41
06. The Blind Boy                                                2:50
07. Clack Dance                                                  0:44
08. Heart Of Oak                                                 4:37
09. The Catford Clown                                            2:49
10. Liferaft                                                     1:04
11. Castaway                                                     4:09
12. Revere Reach                                                 5:50
13. Orlando                                                      2:17

Releasenotes:
Revere Reach, the magnificent new album from William D. Drake and his band, will
officially be released on the 15th  of June. It is available on LP (HUM13), CD
(HUM14) and download via iTunes. It is distributed by Cargo.

For his fifth solo excursion, former Cardiacs keysmith William D Drake takes us
on a serpentine path through the inner regions of Revere Reach, a part-imagined
landscape composed of memory and fantasy. At once heart-felt, hearty and absurd,
its heady reveries blend ancient-seeming modal folk melody with an obliquely
slanted Rock thrust.

Anchored around the gutsy centrepiece of 'Heart Of Oak', a maritime mover with
sinuous hurdy-gurdies snapping at its stern, the surreal rubs tooth-by-jowl with
the unabashedly romantic. Andrea Parker and Drake's twining vocals clear a
perfect moment of stillness within 'In Converse', re-imagining J M Synge's
sublime Irish odyssey. The dulcitone and choral chant of 'Be Here Steryear'
recalls the unfathomable circling thoughts of a moment of waking or falling
asleep. Drake's dark-hued vocals and insistent harmonium propel 'The Blind Boy',
driving a defiant splendour into eighteenth-century poet-laureate Colley
Cibber's words. With its caressing push and pull tempo, husky sax and lacrimose
musical saw, 'Castaway' has the sultry lilt of a long-lost recording committed
to wax on some dizzyingly hot evening in the 1930s.

From the opening stomp of 'Distant Buzzing' to the 'genie back in the bottle'
parting squeal of 'Orlando', Revere Reach is Drake's richest and most
captivating set to date.

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