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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release for The Zincs frontman features influences from avant-rock, British folk, and jazz.
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- Record Label: Paradise of Bachelors
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jun 30, 2017Wintres Woma, however, is the first full-length LP credited only to Elkington, and it’s a lovely document of not only his top-shelf guitar abilities, but also his sharp songwriting skills and sturdy singing voice.
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Jul 6, 2017Wintres Woma envelops you like a warm wool blanket on a dark, snowbound evening. Elkington has a woody, naturalistic voice that fits well with his introspective style. However, it's his adept fingerpicking, lithe fretboard skills, and inventive harmonic structures that impress the most here.
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Jul 6, 2017His voice is looser, shrugging, unsteady, not always gelling with his instrument, although its nonchalance gives Grief Is Not Coming a serrated edge; elsewhere, it can sound oddly indifferent. Nevertheless, this is a very promising beginning, boldly shifting the seasons.
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Jul 6, 2017Wintres Woma is an album that makes itself easy to like.
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MagnetJul 18, 2017The music's effortless grace contradicts the experiences f temporal and cultural unease that Elkington sings about in ways that'll keep the listener guessing and the record spinning. [No. 144, p.55]
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Jun 30, 2017The net result is a strong suite of compositions that canter and curl with commanding calmness.
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Q MagazineJul 6, 2017Throughout, his control is masterful: spry on Make It Up, clarion and clipped on Grief Is Not Coming, familiar and uncanny all at once. [Aug 2017, p.105]