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6 out of 10
Now, I've not got perfect pitch by any stretch of the guitar string but it wouldn't surprise me at all if there wasn't plenty of D-minor on this album - the saddest of all keys, as you know. A series of acoustic sketches currently available for free download on his web site, Kevin Hewick's Doomcloud should inspire you to seek out more from this unique English voice. Lyrically, he manages to wring several last, bittersweet drops from the standard themes of love, loss and longing. This is churned with a powerful dose of chest-cracking emotional openness that even Morrissey would pause before revealing.
The spirits of Buckley, Drake and Martyn can be glimpsed around the stand-out tracks; Deservation, Ultrapissed ('It's one a.m. / It's my mid-week lost weekend'), Somehows Somehow (PJ Harvey evidently missed this one) and the haunting ache of The Love Phantom. Get past the dour opener and you will be rewarded with music which could have been written at any time during the last forty years, which, if you think about it, makes it timeless.
Listen: www. www.myspace.com/kevinhewickuk
Tracklist:
1. An Object She's Left Behind
2. Doomcloud
3. Deservation
4. Day to Day, Lonely
5. How Far Off The Target Was I?
6. Ultrapissed
7. Somehows Somehow
8. The Love Phantom
9. I'm Not Involved
10. On Your Terms
11. Make That Call
12. Kiss Her Under Naked Trees
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