Andrew Morgan

Key tracks:

Plight Of An Exile
Shoulder Your Shovels
Victory In Passing
Please Kid, Remember (Instrumental)
Snow (Instrumental)
As Long As We're Together (Instrumental)

Label: Broken Horse

Description:

A homage to fifties Cool Jazz and pastoral pop, whilst standing firmly in the present.

Raised on The Beatles and baptised in the church of British pop, Andrew Morgan's musical output reflects his upbringing giving us a bastion of tales swathed in drama and mystery with a sound reminiscent of Elliot Smith.

"Misadventures in Radiology" Andrew's 2004 dreamy debut, was a firm favourite of ours as well as the critics (it got shortlisted for Uncut's album of the year!) with its irresistible homage to 1950's Cool Jazz and the kaleidoscopic invention of late 1960's British Pop.

The long awaited follow up album, "Please Kid, Remember", builds on the foundations laid in the debut, all the while evoking glimmers of cornerstone chamber pop albums by artists such as The Zombies and Badly Drawn Boy, yet bears a scope of arrangement and diversity of instrumentation all its own. A sense of wonder unifies the album's 17 tracks, which find a kindred spirit as much in mid-20th century Disney animated features as in the magical realism of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Key tracks include "Plight Of An Exile" opens the first album with epic string arrangements and a generous smattering of Brian Wilson inspired timpani. "Shoulder Your Shovels," waltzes in with telling a dramatic tale delivered with overwhelming charm and backed with a string section that oozes a European grandeur. Of the new album our favourite is "Victory In Passing", a shining example of Morgan's eloquent Baroque pop awash with vocal sweeps and delicate melodies gracefully carried on the shoulders of a thunderous rhythm section.

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