Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.
Perfect Partner
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Silence Is Easy ~ Starsailor  (29)
£4.98
|
On the Outside ~ Starsailor  (15)
£4.98
|
The Man Who ~ Travis (143)
£5.97
|
Performance and Cocktails ~ Stereophonics  (84)
£6.47
|
Vehicles & Animals ~ Athlete (87)
£4.98
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
See all 45 customer reviews...
Track Listings
| 1. Tie Up My Hands |
| 2. Poor Misguided Fool |
| 3. Alcoholic |
| 4. Lullaby |
| 5. Way To Fall |
| 6. Fever |
| 7. She Just Wept |
| 8. Talk Her Down |
| 9. Love Is Here |
| 10. Good Souls |
| 11. Coming Down |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Although Love Is Here, Starsailor's anxious, soulful folk and urban blues nuanced inaugural album will be less of a culture shock to any scene-follower who experienced, say, Tom McRae's debut from 2000, it will certainly jolt the core beliefs and common cultural values of the British indie scene. Nothing about Starsailor is remotely alternative--at least not in the conventional interpretation of the word--nor perfunctorily fashionable or juvenescent. Cool dads will appreciate them every bit as much as the hip kids. After all, not only is tender-aged singer James Walsh proud to admit to being influenced by Van Morrison and Tim Buckley--blimey, it's like punk never happened--he is also gifted with a larynx as gnarled, emotionally articulate and demonstratively tremulous as the all-time great and latterly underrated Roger Chapman. Debut or no debut, Love Is Here is an assured classic, the exposition of impending mid-life crises and buttoned-up desperation (typical lyric: "I need to be alone while I suffer") conveyed through an impassioned and distinctly non-rock lexicon of shuffling jazz percussion, metronomic acoustic guitars and keyboards which veer--Ray Manzarek style--between decorative cocktail piano and ice rink organ (courtesy of former crematorium organist Barry Westhead). The gooseflesh frisson of "Tie Up My Hands" and "Poor Misguided Fool" is palpable, the taut, dispirited burnout of "Fever" and "Talk Her Down" fantastically lucid. Are Starsailor the future of British pop? Let's bloody hope so. --Kevin Maidment
Description
Debut album from the Wigan based indie quartet. It featuresthe singles 'Fever', 'Alcoholic' and 'Good Souls'. Their work has been compared to that of The Verve and Jeff Buckley.
Although Love Is Here, Starsailor's anxious, soulful folk and urban blues nuanced inaugural album will be less of a culture shock to any scene-follower who experienced, say, Tom McRae's debut from 2000, it will certainly jolt the core beliefs and common cultural values of the British indie scene. Nothing about Starsailor is remotely alternative--at least not in the conventional interpretation of the word--nor perfunctorily fashionable or juvenescent. Cool dads will appreciate them every bit as much as the hip kids. After all, not only is tender-aged singer James Walsh proud to admit to being influenced by Van Morrison and Tim Buckley--blimey, it's like punk never happened--he is also gifted with a larynx as gnarled, emotionally articulate and demonstratively tremulous as the all-time great and latterly underrated Roger Chapman. Debut or no debut, Love Is Here is an assured classic, the exposition of impending mid-life crises and buttoned-up desperation (typical lyric: "I need to be alone while I suffer") conveyed through an impassioned and distinctly non-rock lexicon of shuffling jazz percussion, metronomic acoustic guitars and keyboards which veer--Ray Manzarek style--between decorative cocktail piano and ice rink organ (courtesy of former crematorium organist Barry Westhead). The gooseflesh frisson of "Tie Up My Hands" and "Poor Misguided Fool" is palpable, the taut, dispirited burnout of "Fever" and "Talk Her Down" fantastically lucid. Are Starsailor the future of British pop? Let's bloody hope so. --Kevin Maidment
Description
Debut album from the Wigan based indie quartet. It featuresthe singles 'Fever', 'Alcoholic' and 'Good Souls'. Their work has been compared to that of The Verve and Jeff Buckley.