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Until the Traffic Stops

~ Alex Cornish (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (1 Oct 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Bellevue
  • ASIN: B000TZGQEU
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 90,366 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen10. Untied 8:36£0.79

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Debut album from Alex Cornish, an Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter.

'Until the Traffic Stops' is a masterful collection of songs, enveloped in some inspired guitar playing, string arrangements and orchestration. Alex recorded most of this album, apart from the drums and brass, in his own home studio but you'd never know it. With a lush melancholy sound, at times reminiscent of Scott Matthews or Astral Weeks Van Morrison, the album also has a contemporary sheen that echoes Elbow or Coldplay, with a lyrical content old beyond his years.

Alex has a song over the end credits to a Hollywood film out later this year, "Solstice", directed by Dan Myrick (The Blair Witch Project).

"Sometimes a record arrives in the pile and it just jumps out at you. That is Alex Cornish and it's complete quality" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6Music

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A sleeper album destined for rerelease, 12 Mar 2008
By James M. Lancaster "James" (Hove) - See all my reviews
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This is surely going to be one of those albums that is rereleased when public appreciation reaches critical mass. We have some cracking tunes here, all set against beautiful, multi-textured instrumentation. The lyrics aren't bad either. Frankly, this album passes rusty water over the bog-standard indie- T-shirt nonsense we have to suffer on a daily basis. Alex Cornish is very talented singer-songwriter, whose time must come.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Debut, 12 Mar 2008
By Graeme A. G. Scott (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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ALEX CORNISH Until The Traffic Stops
Bellevue Records
I've been intending to write my review of this album for months. The fact that I have not done so is not from lack of interest. Quite the contrary is the actual case. To be honest my wife found this debut CD from Edinburgh based singer songwriter Alex Cornish and it has proved to be a family favourite ever since. In attempting to describe what you will find within the ten tracks I have to say there is an atmosphere that, just at times, makes you think of Coldplay, Keane, Rufus Wainwright and perhaps a little Tom Baxter. However Alex has not cloned the sound of these artists, this is very much his creation. The album opens with the title track and you are captured and intrigued by a French Horn and string arrangement that is haunting and sets the mood for the album. When the vocals cut in at 1'40" followed by the big, but never over the top production, you will understand why I have put Alex up with the others. Several tracks are fairly lengthy 'Same Ride Same Way', 'The Trouble I Am' and the wonderful closer 'Untied' for example however you do not get the idea that they're long just for the sake of it. There is a definite structure to these songs. Many are observational; not perhaps your usual clutch of love songs and Alex delivers them like a man on a passionate mission to engage you in his ideas and music. The whole package works very well indeed.
Graeme Scott

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4.0 out of 5 stars Cornish cream !, 25 Feb 2008
By Arthur Dooley (N Wales) - See all my reviews
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I came to this through the BBC series 'Wainwright's Walks'. I found the incidental music quite alluring in a misty ,ambient, chill-out sort of way.
Checking out the composer Alex Cornish...I found myself on his web page and MySpace page where four rather fine tracks were waiting for me.
Taking a chance on an album by a 23 year old Edinburgh Indie musician who had made 'When the traffic stops' in his bedroom....very punk!...I am delighted to say that despite it not sounding one iota like the Wainwright music. It is nevertheless a work of quality.
With ten vocal tracks rather than instrumentals on the album.I have to say that 'traffic' sounds so much like a lost Coldplay album. Alex even sounds like Chris Martin. The final 8 minute track 'Untied' is pure Coldplay at their anthemic best.
If there's any fault with the album it lies with it's total re-invention of a standard musical genre rather than an experimental journey by a composer looking to plough his own furrow.
Until then, Alex at least providies us with a work of substance and entertainment.
A fine start to a young songwriting career.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN REMIXED FOR RE-RELEASE...
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Just to let you know this is the "old" version of Until the Traffic Stops. The new re-released version (as heard on Radio 2 etc etc) is out on 27 April, and if you... Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. Cornish

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant debut album that deserves more support and airtime
I saw Alex supporting Tom McRae (another hugely misunderstood and under-rated British singer-songwriter talent... Read more
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