Review

It’s difficult to make a folk album these days. More accurately, it’s difficult to make a folk album that won’t end up soundtracking an advert for a probiotic yoghurt drink. Or a computer. Luckily for 6 Day Riot, this is folk, but folk that’s taken a gap year and returned wiser. There are sorrowful vocals and jaunty acoustic guitars, but also tom drums, melodicas and ukuleles. ‘So You’re A Writer’ comes straight from Graceland – the Graceland of Ezra Koenig, while ‘Rise Again’ culminates in a counterpoint between a joyous “hey hey hey” and a right-on “yeah yeah yeah”, over sonorous trumpets and ship-at-sea drums. Have they recruited new members to the Village Green Appreciation Society? Oh yes. Ailbhe Malone

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DOWNLOAD: ‘SO YOU’RE A WRITER’.
FOR FANS OF: LAURA MARLING, NOAH AND THE WHALE, SLOW CLUB.

Posted on: 27th January 2010

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