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| 1. Is It Wrong To Lose Faith In The Person You Used To Love? |
| 2. The Runaround |
| 3. Starry Nite #2 |
| 4. The Silence Stops Tonight |
| 5. I Dream Of Black |
| 6. This Is Just A Little Interlude... |
| 7. Starry Nite #3 |
| 8. Will The Moon Ever Rise Again? |
| 9. White Wave |
| 10. Wartime Love |
| 11. Solar Collapse |
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Since making his Mercury-nominated debut as The Electric Soft Parade with brother Alex, Thomas White has been nothing short of prolific. Recording and touring three albums and an EP with ESP, two cult long players with Brakes, and helping out with Brighton contemporaries Restlesslist and The Pipettes. Last year saw a critically acclaimed renaissance with the third Electric Soft Parade album, No Need To Be Downhearted. A celebratory piece of peerless prog-pop, it re-affirmed Thomas White as one of Britain’s foremost exponents of melodically ambitious pop. This is his first solo outing, a home crafted dream-scape of whirring synths, psych-guitar and the instantly recognisable vocal. With the self-imposed remit of “making a cohesive record without going anywhere near a studio”, Tom set himself up with a Tascam 4-Track tape recorder and began brainstorming. Inspiration is derived from myriad different sources including The Dandy Warhols, RTX, Broadcast, Money Mark, Clearlake and The Wicker Man. Amid ambient electro-acoustica and playful surf ‘wig-outs’, the single The Runaround sees Thomas “channeling Courtney Taylor-Taylor circa 1998”, while the albums' “only love song” Starry Nite #2 conjures up The Beach Boys at their beatific best. Starry Nite #3 splices Robert Wyatt's early seventies recordings with the dusty beats of Money Mark, and closer Wartime Love/Solar Collapse imagines a the sound of a solar implosion as heard from earth. Reviews confirmed in Clash, Artrocker, Q and The Sun with Mojo, Uncut and OMM promised. Web confirmed; BBC Collective, Guardian/Times/Observer online, Pitchfork and Drowned in Sound. Thomas has already been played several times on Marc Riley and Tom Robinson, performing in session late April for Marc Riley.PR is coordinated by Amanda at Freeman PR and online through Kev and Cannonball PR Tracks: Is It Wrong To Lose Faith In The Person You Used To Love? / The Runaround / Starry Nite #2 / The Silence Stops Tonight / I Dream Of Black / This Is Just A Little Interlude... / Starry Nite #3 / Will The Moon Ever Rise Again? / White Wave / Wartime Love/Solar Collapse
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I Dream Of Black is the first solo outing from Thomas White since he made his Mercury-nominated debut as The Electric Soft Parade with brother Alex, recording and touring with ESP and Brakes, and helping out with Brighton contemporaries Restlesslist and The Pipettes. Last year saw a critically-acclaimed renaissance with the third Electric Soft Parade album, No Need To Be Downhearted. I Dream Of Black is a home crafted dream-scape of whirring synths, psych-guitar and White’s instantly recognisable vocals. With the self-imposed remit of "making a cohesive record without going anywhere near a studio", Thomas derived inspiration from myriad different sources including The Dandy Warhols, RTX, Broadcast, Money Mark, Clearlake and The Wicker Man. Stand-out tracks include the single "The Runaround", the album's only love song "Starry Nite #2", the Robert Wyatt-esque "Starry Nite #3" and epic closer "Wartime Love/Solar Collapse".
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