Artist: Guided By Lights
EP: Courage Comes Between Us
Label: Unsigned
Released: Out Now
Reviewed by: Roger Goodgroves
I got very excited hearing the opening bars of “Guided by Lights” new EP “Courage comes between us”. I loved the opening swell of cello and acoustic guitar backing on “Down”. I anticipated a Damien Rice album or the soundtrack from the great movie “Once”.
Unfortunately the joy was short-lived and my hopes were dashed when the jarring voice of lead singer Adam Bones came breaking in over the lovely backing. On their myspace page they list influences including The Pogues and with this sort of vocal quality I can well see why!
If I’d heard Adam sing on the X-Factor I would assume that he was one of the ones kept in to show how well the others can sing and to enable the audience to have a laugh that someone this bad could ever think that they could make it in the music business.
It’s a shame that the instrumental talents of Emma Clarke couldn’t find a better front man. I could happily listen to this album with the vocals muted. My only criticism of the backing tracks are in the mix and recording. It sounds like a microphone was sat in the middle of a “live” room and the musicians huddled around to play. Perhaps they were trying to recreate the “back room of the local pub” feel but it instead came across to me that they couldn’t afford studio time.
The overall feel of the album is jaunty Irish and the best of the tracks on the EP in my opinion was “It goes”.
Off to dig out Blowers Daughter now, I need to clean my palette.
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1 Response
When it comes to musical taste its each to their own really. Whilst it is fair enough you did not enjoy this EP, I find this review lacks constructive critism and depth. Maybe you fancy yourself as a bit of Simon Cowell?
Posted on October 26th, 2009 at 13:05
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