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STRANGERS BRING ME NO LIGHT (LP)
Label GFM RECORDS
Catalog GFM004
Format LP
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2016-09-02
Description
The release follows Jinnwoo’s critically-acclaimed debut ‘Your Baby’ E.P. and a series of singles - the E.P.’s title track, ‘Solo Man’, ‘You Should Be Feeling This Elliott’ and ‘I Am, I Am, The World’s Oldest Man’ - all released in 2014, collectively garnering coverage across The Guardian Guide, The Line of Best Fit, Clash, 405, For Folk’s Sake – among many others –and accumulating in Jinnwoo being named one of The Independent’s ‘Faces to Watch 2015’. 2015 saw perfectionist Jinnwoo lay the finishing touches to ‘Strangers Bring Me No Light’, an album which has been years in the making and began with Jinnwoo hand-picking collaborators to work with. Working with established musicians on the record gave Jinnwoo a needed distance from the lyrics and meaning of the songs, “when you hear someone else sing about your life in your words, it sort of distances you - that’s quite nice.” Jinnwoo’s work has been described aptly as “confessional folk” (The Guardian) and he himself has described ‘Strangers Bring Me No Light’ as ‘autobiographical’, with the artwork a self-portrait and the lyrics an outpouring of personal experiences and lingering emotions from his 20’s. Jinnwoo’s confessional reel is one sung in a voice so distinctive no adequate comparisons can be made, but the story-telling style of Bob Dylan and the fragile delivery of Michael Stipe have been raised as a starting point. His sparse atmospheric folk-soundscapes, laced with ghostly string arrangements and his exceptional acoustic guitar work, offer a kind of ‘spooked’ ‘gothic’ folk that sounds like no other.
tracklisting
1. Solo Man (Prod. Gerry Diver guest vocals by Alasdair Roberts)
2. I Am I Am the Worlds Oldest Man (Prod. Weikie guest vocals by Malcolm Middleton)
3. You Should Be Feeling This Elliott (Prod. Noah Georgeson guest vocals by Kyla La Grange)
4. Woman (Prod. Weikie guest vocals by Georgia Ruth)
5. Your Baby (album version) (Prod. Young Montana? guest vocals by Kami Thompson Score by Hannah Peel)
6. Sorrysong (Prod. Weikie guest vocals by Caroline Weeks)
7. Waiting for P to Have a Vision (Prod. Gerry Diver)
8. Wicked Hare(Prod. Weikie guest vocals by Georgia Ruth)
9. With Birds (Prod. Ben Walker guest vocals by Georgia Ruth)
10. Strangers Bring Me No Light (Prod. Weikie and Christian Madden guest vocals by Rachael Dadd)
 

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