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Sun 4th The Luminaire presents DOLOREAN + Ed Laurie
Doors 7.30 Following on from the two beautiful albums 'Not Exotic' and 'Violence In The Snowy Fields', Dolorean's 'You Can't Win' has a lot to live up to. Al James, the band's leader and songwriter, rises to the challenge and produces their best, most accessible and most consistent work to date. In James' own words: "There are many types of music that we pulled from on 'You Can’t Win' - Chet Baker’s cool jazz, Yo La Tengo’s broken grooves, Palace Brothers’ country gothic, Meddle-era Pink Floyd. It all somehow fits together better than any collection of songs we’ve released. It’s a rougher, freer Dolorean captured on a recording. And thankfully, it’s no longer just one hardened heart singing 'You Can’t Win'; there’s a chorus of us reassuringly combining our voices with the same words, but a different message; “It’s okay, quit trying so hard, You Can’t Win.” Main support is brought to you by Ed Laurie, "a singer-songwriter with a similar emotional warmth as such legendary troubadours as Leonard Cohen. A sweet offering if ever we've heard one! [The Stool Pigeon]. Ed paints a haunting and exotic landscape with his unmistakable baritone and Latin-tinged rhythms picked out on a nylon-stringed guitar. Musical magical realism. Think the child of Cesaria Evora if she was involved in a bizarre love-in with Jose Gonzalez, Leonard Cohen and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “When people talk of ‘modern classics’, this is the kind of thing they mean. Outstanding.” [Play Music Magazine] |
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