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A Guide For The Perplexed

Helsinki

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Format: CD

Cat No: NONG96CD

Release Date:  09 March 2015

Label:  Fierce Panda

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020422099623

Genres:  Indie  

Release Date:  04 May 2015

Label:  Fierce Panda

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020422099616

Genres:  Indie  

  • Description

    For as well as the guest artists such as Pete Doherty, Albert Hammond Jr, Fionn Regan and Emma Gillespie, the free-flowing HELSINKI band vibe incorporates the stellar talents of drummer Seb Roachford (Polar Bear), double bassist Spencer Brown (Andy Sheppard), guitarist Matt Park (Mystery Jets), keyboardist Stephen Large (Squeeze, Paul Heaton), percussionist Jamie Morrison (The Noisettes, Stereophonics) and violinists Johnny Fielding (Larrikin Love) and Gillian Maguire (Soko, Swim Deep). These are the industry's backroom dreamers helping to haul Drew into the limelight. Indeed the sweet irony is that the lead-off single is the terrific ''Rising Heights'', released on February 23rd, in which Drew stars on his vocal lonesome. Like the rest of ''A Guide For The Perplexed'' it is a song with its heart on its tattered sleeve and its tattered sleeve reaching for the ragged sky, a coy melody uncurling from a nonchalant gumbo of organic acoustic soundscapes which are jaunty and sulky and trampy and ever-so-gently riotous, frequently all at the same time. At one choice moment in ''Choices'' you will experience the exotique sounds of French reggae, and nothing will ever be the same again.

    Description

    For as well as the guest artists such as Pete Doherty, Albert Hammond Jr, Fionn Regan and Emma Gillespie, the free-flowing HELSINKI band vibe incorporates the stellar talents of drummer Seb Roachford (Polar Bear), double bassist Spencer Brown (Andy Sheppard), guitarist Matt Park (Mystery Jets), keyboardist Stephen Large (Squeeze, Paul Heaton), percussionist Jamie Morrison (The Noisettes, Stereophonics) and violinists Johnny Fielding (Larrikin Love) and Gillian Maguire (Soko, Swim Deep). These are the industry''s backroom dreamers helping to haul Drew into the limelight. Indeed the sweet irony is that the lead-off single is the terrific ''Rising Heights'', released on February 23rd, in which Drew stars on his vocal lonesome. Like the rest of ''A Guide For The Perplexed'' it is a song with its heart on its tattered sleeve and its tattered sleeve reaching for the ragged sky, a coy melody uncurling from a nonchalant gumbo of organic acoustic soundscapes which are jaunty and sulky and trampy and ever-so-gently riotous, frequently all at the same time. At one choice moment in ''Choices'' you will experience the exotique sounds of French reggae, and nothing will ever be the same again.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Rising Heights
      • 2. Cologne Hotel
      • 3. Choices
      • 4. Brideshead
      • 5. The Batteries Weren’t Dead
      • 6. Keys
      • 7. Bitpart
      • 8. Ampersand
      • 9. Ribtickling
      • 10. Green-Eyed Twin

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Rising Heights
      • 2. Cologne Hotel
      • 3. Choices
      • 4. Brideshead
      • 5. The Batteries Weren’t Dead
      • 6. Keys
      • 7. Bitpart
      • 8. Ampersand
      • 9. Ribtickling
      • 10. Green-Eyed Twin