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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517611306
Label: Lost Highway
Manufacturer: Lost Highway
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Lost Highway
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Studio: Lost Highway
Sales Rank: 820
MPN: 001143302
Disc 1:- The Box
- The Wrote & The Writ
- Tickle Me Pink
- Brown Trout Blues
- Eyeless In Holloway
- Shore To Shore
- Cold Bread
- Wayne Rooney
- Leftovers
- Sally
- Hong Kong Cemetry
- Tunnels
- All The Dogs Are Lying Down
- Shore To Shore - reprise
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Lost Highway debut album from British singer songwriter, Johnny Flynn. Flynn's music is brimming over with heart, soul and intelligence. Drawing on diverse influences - The Pixies, Vaughn Williams and anti-folk pioneer Dianne Cluck are all name checked on his Myspace page - Johnny draws on a century's worth of Folk, Blues and Country to create a sound that dwells profoundly in the now.
Acknowledging his debt to these musical traditions but never being overwhelmed by them, Johnny Flynn offers an alternative of substance to those who have grown sick of flimsy singer songwriters and their inane observations. A Larum was recorded deep in the Seattle countryside with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Strokes, Regina Spektor) at his secluded Bear Creek studio. Here they managed to capture the raw energy of Johnny Flynn's shows, underpinning the acoustic guitar, cello and ukulele with muscular drums and bass.
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The title, A Laurum, is Old English for "alarm," and certainly Johnny Flynn's debut is setting off bells. One of the guiding lights of Britain's folk revival, Flynn, 24 at the time of recording, is equal parts busking troubadour and past-century romantic poet. In 13 original songs, where he's backed by his band the Sussex Wit, Flynn muses on death, sex, God, and the wretched state of humanity, often with pointed wit and even sharper intelligence. Melding English/Irish folk songs, American blues, and influences as vast as the Pixies, Richard Thompson, the Pogues, Pentangle, and the literary sensibility of Henry David Thoreau and Shakespeare, he takes listeners on a spirited romp through vivid stories set in cemeteries, trash bins, and churches. The boy, it must be said, has a cheek, asking, on "Shore to Shore," "Jesus, won’t you please us, 'cos you seem a damn nice guy." Lacing his jangly, freewheeling songs with a gypsy's wagon of instruments, Flynn and company often seem like characters out of Chaucer, marking time and making the best of things before the inevitable Grim Reaper. Not to be missed: "The Box," "Hong Kong Cemetry" [sic], and "Leftovers." Simply smashing. -– Alanna Nash
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I was hesitant about buying this album at first but did after a friend recomended it. I can not stop listening to it, it's been in my CD player for almost 2 months. One of the more talented bands to have come out recently in a world where all new artists are sounding blah. This mans voice is hypnotic and the music has soul. Try blasting Cold Bread and driving fast.
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Great album. Great sound. It is a very whole album. It left me with a feeling of contentment and an urge to listen to it again right away.
I highly recommend it. You cannot not love it.
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Let me just begin this review by acknowledging that A LARUM by Johnny Flynn is not for everyone. There are a great number of people for whom the eclectic appeal of this CD will just be lost. Fortunately, I am not one of those people.
The lyrics are odd, the sound is a little offbeat, but for those of us who like a strange bit of silly, the songs are undeniably catchy. To be perfectly frank, Johnny Flynn is one of those artists who worry me a bit because I fear the greater majority ... Read More
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Bands from fellow English speaking countries regularly trickle across the Atlantic, Pacific, or the Canadian Border. Yet, it's not always enough to gain an American audience when we have a large number of talented musicians. I mostly think of Paddy Casey's compilation that came out earlier this year and frankly cannot recommend.
However, when I listened to Johny Flynn's "A Box," the first song on "A Laurm," I enjoyed the fairly melancholic lyrics coupled with a fairly upbeat melody that includes ... Read More
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I'm reviewing this disk for my college radio station. I'm reminded of early Incredible String Band, The Pogues, The Mekons and Chumbawamba. Songs are clever, warm, soulful and spirited.
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