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01. JAMES JOHNSTON - I'd Give You Anything
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02. JAMES JOHNSTON - St. Martha's
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03. JAMES JOHNSTON - Starless Room
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04. JAMES JOHNSTON - Cold Morning Light
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05. JAMES JOHNSTON - Dark Water
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06. JAMES JOHNSTON - Frozen Time
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07. JAMES JOHNSTON - Heart And Soul
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08. JAMES JOHNSTON - The Light Of Love
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09. JAMES JOHNSTON - Let It Fall
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10. JAMES JOHNSTON - When The Wolf Calls
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ARTIST
JOHNSTON, JAMES
TITLE
The Starless Room
FORMAT
LP+CD
LABEL
CLOUDS HILL
CATALOG #
CLOUDS 087LP
CLOUDS 087LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/27/2017
LP version. Includes CD. German record label Clouds Hill present
James Johnston
's debut solo album
The Starless Room
.
The Starless Room
is vast in its scope - visceral, intimate and instinctive.
The Starless Room
represents a remarkable distillation of both Johnston's lyrical obsessions and prodigious, arguably under-acknowledged talent. Suitably, it's the title track that encapsulates the romantic sweep of the record best, with its star at his most intense and
Sebastian Hoffman
's string arrangements at their most ambitious. For James Johnston, however, the greatest pleasure of all is a simple one: the slow tempo of the songs, "Something I adore, like a lot of the
Isaac Hayes
or
Ray Charles
albums that I love. It almost feels like I'm listening to someone else's record." Like he said, it feels just right. As well as playing with
Gallon Drunk
, James Johnston has spent considerable time working with others: A mid '90s spell as a touring guitarist in
The Bad Seeds
led to a full role in
Nick Cave
's band between 2003 and 2008, and he's performed regularly with other iconic acts, including
Lydia Lunch
,
Faust
, and
PJ Harvey
, on whose
The Hope Six Demolition Project
(2016) Johnston appears. But if it sounds like he's softened on this album, he argues powerfully otherwise: "The band's records have quite an earthy feel, but in a way this is rawer, more focused and direct, musically and emotionally. The last Gallon Drunk record is my favorite, and it was certain elements of that which I really wanted to take further, to strip away the dissonance and anger, to reject the more familiar sounds in order to free it all up again. So the instrumentation is very different, led by piano and voice, and the overall sound is lush, yet intimate. Overall it's far more reflective of me, both as a person and the sort of music I actually listen to."
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