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Nov 5, 2015Through the intelligent, measured expansion of the artistic characteristics for which he has been so respected since his departure from The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones has confirmed his place among this country’s most vital contemporary songwriters.
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Dec 14, 2015West Kirby County Primary sounds like it was recorded anywhere but. It’s a beautifully performed and produced record, tender, intimate and close, yet with moments of real physical power.
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Nov 9, 2015As personal and inward-gazing as Ryder-Jones' songs are, he imbues them with a weary comfort, inviting listeners along rather than detaching himself, and if making fine albums like West Kirby County Primary is his form of therapy, he's bound for success.
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Nov 9, 2015Having listened from beginning to end scores of times, it always retains its singular charm.
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Nov 9, 2015It all makes for his most coherent effort yet.
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Nov 5, 2015Unmistakeably the best of Ryder-Jones’ albums to date, West Kirby County Primary is cathartic, sometimes desolate, but always raggedly enjoyable.
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Q MagazineOct 30, 2015Life lived close to home, outside any metropolitan notions of centre, is continually apparent in these intimate melodic reveries, which mull romantic vicissitudes via folk-influenced acoustic and sometimes molten electric rock. [Dec 2015, p.113]
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MojoOct 30, 2015West Kirby Country Primary declares the vivid flowering of a great talent. [Dec 2015, p.84]
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UncutOct 30, 2015Ryder-Jones excels at finding beauty in forbidding places. [Dec 2015, p.78]
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Oct 30, 2015Whereas Ryder-Jones' old band inhabited a colourful, self-contained world of soft drugs, spaghetti westerns and Scouse jabberwocky, his own sonic nook might seem smaller and more earthbound by comparison, but it's no less personal or poignant for that.
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Nov 4, 2015The material on show may be uneven, but there is more than adequate promise and sheer ability to make you think that one day Bill Ryder-Jones may deliver an absolute masterpiece.
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