James Yorkston, "Moving Up Country"

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Worth a listen or just another occurence of praise-happy Britcrits overstating the case?

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It sounds like Nick Drake. VERY like Nick Drake. But it's still very good. Nice tunes abound. There wasn't that much fuss over it from Britcrits, was there?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha. I was very surprised by it. I wouldn't praise it too highly, though. Is it belittling it to call it a "nice" album? Probably.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 13 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

There are some utterly lovely songs on there (6:30 is Way Too Early, I Know My Love, the title track). If you like country folky acoustic guitar music you really won't regret it.

― Andrew Norman, Monday, 13 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

rough trade shops says it is their album of the year, but they have pretty rotten taste actually last year it was white stripes i think and year before some other form of dreadful. i've never heard the album.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

nice pastoral folky stuff, quite interesting and the remixes i've heard of his stuff are ace..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it had a fairly high profile killian,i don't know much about it but i think i saw it in a lot of end of year round ups and the like...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought this after reading Sean O'Hagan's glowing review in the Observer: haven't seen it mentioned much elsewhere, apart from Careless Talk.
He compared it to Nick Drake & John Martyn: of course it's nothing like either, but it is very very good. It creeps up on you - some of the songs are essential.
Belle & Sebastian fans would like it.

― bham, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

is the sean o hagan who writes for the observer (recently did an article about giving up drink) the guy from the high llamas?

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I certainly didn't like it as much as I hoped I would. Maybe I shouldn't pay so much attention to Rough Trade's plugs/reviews.

― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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