add to cart
add to wantlist
email a friend
 
PRICE:
$15.50
IN STOCK
01. Butcher The Bar - Get Away
02. Butcher The Bar - Sex Szene
03. Butcher The Bar - Gumble
04. Butcher The Bar - You Know Everything
05. Butcher The Bar - House/Home
06. Butcher The Bar - New Nest
07. Butcher The Bar - Opening Night
08. Butcher The Bar - Bike
09. Butcher The Bar - Leave This Town
10. Butcher The Bar - Head's Contents
11. Butcher The Bar - Ball Point Skin Notes
12. Butcher The Bar - The Boy You Miss The Most
13. Butcher The Bar - Rounds
ARTIST
TITLE
Sleep At Your Own Speed
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MORR 082CD MORR 082CD
GENRE
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.