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- Summary: British folk singer-songwriter Sam Lee worked with Bernard Butler and James Keay on his fourth full-length release that features the London-based choir, Trans Voices.
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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock, Indie Folk
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Mar 19, 2024The record’s dreamlike atmosphere is seductive and disquieting; a moving tribute to Albion’s troubled soul.
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Mar 19, 2024Songdreaming is a big musical event. It is a great place to start if you are less familiar with folk music, opening its arms to ambient and electronic influences while simultaneously celebrating traditional instruments and old melodic forms. It is also a great place to visit if you’ve lived with these forms of music for decades.
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UncutMar 19, 2024Lee's overarching theme is loss and despair at the damage done to the natural world, but with an approach that is emphatic rather than abrasive, the anger palpable but not overbearing. [Mar 2024, p.29]
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Mar 19, 2024songdreaming is by no means perfect; Lee’s version of Black Dog And Sheep Crook comes on a little too much like Dave Brubeck’s Take Five, and his Anglicisation of Robert Burns ballad Aye Walking Oh feels a bit unnecessary. However, Lee does unaffected loveliness very well (case in point: the closing Sweet Girl McRee), and his intense empathy – for the bees, the trees, the birdies and his fellow man – shines through. [Apr 2024, p.80]