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01. Butcher The Bar - Get Away
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02. Butcher The Bar - Sex Szene
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03. Butcher The Bar - Gumble
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04. Butcher The Bar - You Know Everything
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05. Butcher The Bar - House/Home
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06. Butcher The Bar - New Nest
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07. Butcher The Bar - Opening Night
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08. Butcher The Bar - Bike
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09. Butcher The Bar - Leave This Town
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10. Butcher The Bar - Head's Contents
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11. Butcher The Bar - Ball Point Skin Notes
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12. Butcher The Bar - The Boy You Miss The Most
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13. Butcher The Bar - Rounds
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ARTIST
BUTCHER THE BAR
TITLE
Sleep At Your Own Speed
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MORR MUSIC
CATALOG #
MORR 082CD
MORR 082CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/27/2008
This is the debut full-length release by Britain's
Joel Nicholson
for Morr Music. He has described the cast list of his intimate band as "me and my bedroom." In Manchester, the songs of
Butcher the Bar
fill a small house, but soon these walls won't be the only ones in which they live. "Make this house a home" could be the phrase that matches this atmosphere. He sounds a little like
Elliot Smith
, with the persuasive power of his carefully-crafted chords and the immediacy of his softly-spoken vocals. An artist like Joel Nicholson would have been called a singer-songwriter before this word became a catch-all phrase. In the meantime, quiet is STILL the new loud and home-cooked tracks are still the tastiest and most comforting of all.
Sleep At Your Own Speed
is a coming-of-age novel consisting of 13 short stories. "Getaway," for instance, is a declaration of woe to a city that used to be home once, "Ball Point Skin Notes" illustrates the forlornness of youth, and "Leave Town" is as exuberant as a pop song can be. An acoustic guitar, a banjo, a warm, direct voice. Lyrics such as "
I leave town tonight, if only western civilization feels alright
..." point to the singer's earnestness and yearning for universal understanding. Melancholy, deceleration and reduction are Joel Nicholson's musical topics. Folk and post-folk, old and new heroes (
Nick Drake
,
Paul Simon
,
Sufjan Stevens
), searching, finding and finally letting go.
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