A facile description of this album would be to just call it singer-songwriter music with touches of folk and blues. I am not sure that’s really doing it justice though. Vocalist, Afie Jurvanen has an affecting voice that at times reminded me of Coldplay‘s Chris Martin when he’s singing ballads and this is a sold collection of music (stream it above) that is a worthy Long List nominee to my ears. I’ve actually played this album a few times just ‘cos I was trying to get my head around it but I’m not sure this is really threatening to make my short list ballot but wouldn’t be surprised or upset if it did make the short list.

[album stream Paste Magazine via the Totally Fuzzy blog]