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DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON - The Complete Guide To Insufficiency
Plug Research
CD // £5.49
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: Dec 2005
Catalogue Number: PLG60CD

DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON - The Complete Guide To Insufficiency, Plug Research

Coming from the same city as the Kaiser Chiefs, David Thomas Broughton couldn't provide a more distinct juxtaposition of styles with the Leeds winkle-pickers if he tried. Where they revel in crass Britpop sloganeering, Broughton is all about the slow-burn; coaxing melodies and oddly gorgeous vocals from a shuffling music box of acoustic guitars, looping pedals and bargain-bin drum machines. The result is (predictably) tooth-achingly gorgeous. Recorded in a single take at Wrangthorn Church (Hyde Park, Leeds), Broughton has been unceremoniously dumped into the 'freak-folk' enclosure and in doing so shows up the meagre offerings traditionally proffered under this soft-centered appellation. Taking handsome dollops of Nick Drake, John Fahey, Antony of the Johnsons and Neutral Milk Hotel, Broughoton's quixotic touch is writ large above all the pieces contained within 'The Complete Guide to Insufficiency' - instilling a fabulously dream-like quality to proceedings. Opening with 'Ambiguity', Broughton leads us in through some tip-toeing guitar loops that gradually unfurl into a pink-hued vocal that recalls Antony and the Johnson's in its stark, alien delivery, albeit shorn of the overly operatic tendencies, whilst he laments "it's easy to forget where you came from if there's no question of your return...'. Similarly, both 'Execution' and 'Walking Over You' are fantastically accomplished whilst coming across as appealingly naïve, representing that fabled song-writing territory where the innovative does not overshadow the enjoyable - but instead coexists. Or something. Either way it's a lovely album (dedicated to John Peel) which will likely suit all seasons and enhance a buoyant mood as much as it consoles a dour one. A Revelation.

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