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Acoustic Fridays Volume 1 Review

Here at Pugwash we like to nurture and support good home-grown talent and the first offering from local indie label High Desert Music looks promising. Boasting a long list of unheard and unsigned indie acts, the CD contains acoustic versions of originals as well as live performances that perfectly capture that live acoustic ambience.

Acoustic Fridays is a bi-monthly meeting of various UK indie acts, meeting to perform and expose their talents (talents in the literal sense, not the flashing sense). This compilation brings together some of the best musicians available to the south coast and its all held in the little town of Farnham, well it has to start somewhere.

Stand out tracks include Big Wednesday’s acoustic version of ‘Easier to Cry’, which has hints of Damien Rice’s melancholic writing style and Jenny-Lynn Smith’s live performance of ‘It’s a shame’.  Sequoia also feature with their trade mark happy-go-lucky sound, ‘She turns the Key’ is an extremely up lifting tune that brings back that warmth that The Shins and The Flaming Lips were all too capable of doing.

Sequoia seem to be the rising talent of this collection of equally brilliant writers and performers, bringing that edge of professionalism that some of the other bands seem to lack. Don’t get me wrong, this CD is still packed with beautiful acoustic music and is highly recommended to anyone who enjoys Damian Rice, Stephen Fretwell and James Blunt. Acoustic Fridays just goes to show that you don’t need millions of dollars to create a well crafted collection of easy listening numbers.

Review by Leon Poultney