Something sonically inspirational comes from The Sons of Noel and Adrian. Founded by Tom Cowan and Jacob Richardson, they include members of Brighton’s Willkommen Collective. These alt-folksters, who collaborate with members of The Leisure Society and the Miserable Rich to produce a self-titled debut album which is a densely populated musical canvas. Strings are the order of the day here. Guitars and cellos vie with violins ‘Damien’ is strummy, mainly instrumental and runs away with itself. ‘Ragwort’ is not a million miles from Fleet Foxes punctuated with bursts of discordant squalling that turns to melody on a penny. While the whistling sea shanty, ‘The Wreck Is Not A Boat,’ is this album’s finest hour. The vocal warbles atop a spoon led jam.
This large assemblage of musicians layer pianos, whistles and glockenspiels through their nine brooding songs. Their conflicting melodies crash against each other like dodgems. The wailing vocals bay like sirens on the rocks. It’s wild, ethereal, diverse and compulsive.
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