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Prior to there third album 'Oh My Days' the memory band have release two fantastic albums 'The Memory Band' and 'Apron Strings'. On both albums they managed to catch a wonderful English pastoral Folk. The recordings, instrumentations and vocals were purposley rough around the edges, making you feel like you were sat in the local pub with them.
'Oh My Days' still features many classic, and beautiful songs, though perhaps a little too polished. The two instrumentals 'Blackberry Way' and 'The Snake' and patricularly excellent, along with some extremley well pened folk songs including 'Run River Run' carrying on their tradition of rough and ready, but warm and friendly folk songs. Nancy Wallace's cover of Sandy Denny's 'By The Time It Gets Dark' is patricularly wonderful, perhaps only spoiled by a bit of over instrumentation towards the end.
The remainder of the album heads in a brand new direction. A post-modern blues sound, with morse sparse instrumentation highlighting the unusual vocals. Upon first listen i was not convinced of this new direction, but after a few listens i really got what they were trying to do. 'Demon Days' is such an amazing track, and would probably be in my top 10 songs of all time.
Unfortunatley the album does not hold together too well as a cohesive whole. Some of the folk songs sound a bit tacked on and are at odds with some of the more creative new tracks. And a minor niggle, but the packaging is extremley cheap and nasty. The card on which it is printed is very cheap and flimsy and there are no extensive liner notes as with the previous albums, and my cd even had a mis-print on it.
'Oh My Days' still features many classic, and beautiful songs, though perhaps a little too polished. The two instrumentals 'Blackberry Way' and 'The Snake' and patricularly excellent, along with some extremley well pened folk songs including 'Run River Run' carrying on their tradition of rough and ready, but warm and friendly folk songs. Nancy Wallace's cover of Sandy Denny's 'By The Time It Gets Dark' is patricularly wonderful, perhaps only spoiled by a bit of over instrumentation towards the end.
The remainder of the album heads in a brand new direction. A post-modern blues sound, with morse sparse instrumentation highlighting the unusual vocals. Upon first listen i was not convinced of this new direction, but after a few listens i really got what they were trying to do. 'Demon Days' is such an amazing track, and would probably be in my top 10 songs of all time.
Unfortunatley the album does not hold together too well as a cohesive whole. Some of the folk songs sound a bit tacked on and are at odds with some of the more creative new tracks. And a minor niggle, but the packaging is extremley cheap and nasty. The card on which it is printed is very cheap and flimsy and there are no extensive liner notes as with the previous albums, and my cd even had a mis-print on it.
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