SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT
Gyllyng Street
CD
SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT
Aerial Days
CD
SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT
Songs Of Green Pheasant
CD
By this, his third release, Songs Of Green Pheasant's Duncan Sumpner has all but entirely divorced himself from the four-track obscurity of his earlier work, instead embarcing something approaching a full-band sound and an altogether more elaborate production (this time he's using an eight-track). As was hinted at by last year's Aerial Days EP, Sumpner's current musical inclinations have favoured scaled-up shoegaze-styled aesthetics over the ultr... READ MORE ABOUT: SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT, Gyllyng Street, Fat Cat ![]()
The first album from Sheffield based artist Duncan Sumpner took us totally by surprise; a gorgeous homespun and impossibly British take on the whole bedroom folk explosion, coming at a time when (weird) America was ready to take over completely. Giving the perfect yang to Animal Collective and Devandra Banhart’s yin, Sumpner pieced together vignettes that sounded like everything and nothing simultaneously, the influences were clear but at the sam... READ MORE ABOUT: SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT, Aerial Days, Fat Cat ![]()
With nothing more than a bag of ear-achingly sweet melodies for sustenance, Sheffield lad Duncan Sumpner set out in search of the fabled Hunters Bar musical spring which, going on his debut LP, he seems to have found. Based around gorgeous homespun compositions that seem to flicker in and out of being like a draft tickled candle, 'Songs of Green Pheasant' are diffused without lacking focus, tender without losing their bite and bloody irresistible... READ MORE ABOUT: SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT, Songs Of Green Pheasant, Fat Cat ![]()