Genre: Folk rock
Places I remember: Second hand shop in Woodville
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Vale Of Tears
Gear costume: Market Place, Portobello Road
Active compensatory factors: I took a punt on this album because of the Cat Stevens connection and the arresting cover. Alun Davies has been Cat's guitarist foil from 1970 onwards (and he appeared on Cat's re-emergence in 2005 under his adopted name - Yusuf Islam).
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Vale Of Tears
Gear costume: Market Place, Portobello Road
Active compensatory factors: I took a punt on this album because of the Cat Stevens connection and the arresting cover. Alun Davies has been Cat's guitarist foil from 1970 onwards (and he appeared on Cat's re-emergence in 2005 under his adopted name - Yusuf Islam).
At times you can imagine Cat Steven's voice in songs - Old Bourbon for instance. The man himself is on piano on the album, co-produces along with Paul Samwell-Smith and contributes the lovely Portobello Road (contains some excellent banjo on that one - Mumford and Sons surely have a copy of this album!)
It's a cool sound that Davies creates and the six songs he contributes are good ones. Ultimately though he doesn't have that seventies Cat Stevens midas touch and so the album lives in the shadow of that charismatic character.
Where do they all belong? A fine addition to the folk rock genre all the same.
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