A Larum [VINYL]

Product Details

Artist : Johnny Flynn
Format : Box set
Binding : Vinyl
EAN : 0602517666627
Label : Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-05-26
Running Time : 86minutes
UPC : 602517666627

ASIN : B0015I2UMW

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. The Box
2. The Wrote & The Writ
3. Tickle Me Pink
4. Brown Trout Blues
5. Eyeless In Holloway
6. Shore To Shore
7. Cold Bread
8. Wayne Rooney
9. Leftovers
10. Sally
11. Hong Kong Cemetry
12. Tunnels
13. All The Dogs Are Lying Down
14. Shore To Shore - reprise
15. Eyeless In Holloway
16. Shore To Shore
17. Cold Bread
18. Wayne Rooney

Disc-2
1. Leftovers
2. Sally
3. Hong Kong Cemetry
4. Tunnels
5. All The Dogs Are Lying Down
6. Shore To Shore - reprise

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Customer Reviews

Let's hear it for the band (2008-08-03)

It is time for the nature of music reviews - at least for popular music - to change. There's no need any longer to read a review to help you decide if you want to buy an album. All of these tracks can be heard on various places online - either in part or in full, often in different arrangements, sometimes in video - and the lyrics too are freely available. So you can listen, and read, before you decide whether to buy. The traditional reviewer role of helping you decide whether or not this music will be for you, is redundant. It's time for 'reviewers' of popular music to become critics and commentators, to promote discussion rather than offer guidance. With that in mind, here's Johnny...Very much part of the current British Folk scene, albeit South African by birth, Flynn is a 25-year old actor, poet and songwriter. He went to Bedales, one of the most expensive independent schools in the UK, and has acted in some very prestigious Shakespeare productions. His voice is expressive rather than melodic. He may not quite hit the notes, but he feels them.The CD insert that is devoted to Flynn (the other insert is devoted to his backing group, The Sussex Wit) rather alarmingly (or a larumingly) cites Shakespeare and Chaucer as his storytelling forebears. Flynn himself says that he has always been interested in "...storytelling as an art form. Real epic storytelling. You hear that in Chaucer, and it's mirrored in traditional folk and in the blues." Quite so, but it's not mirrored in Flynn's own songs. They are not sustained narratives, do not tell a story. They are word pictures -- fragmentary, evocative and sometimes enigmatic. Nothing wrong with that, of course. In fact, they are for the most part fine lyrics, it's just that they are not the stories he seems to think they are, and not of the tradition to which he aspires.The versions of 'The Box' and 'Tickle Me Pink' (and I think others) are different from the single and EP versions. If you already have those versions, you might welcome the changes, as you are getting something new, some added value. Or, if you have not heard the singles versions, you might feel short-changed, as you are not getting the versions that attracted attention originally. The musical backing is innovative and very satisfying, with wonderful use of dischordant strings and prominent drum rolls, and indeed some excellent guitar work from Flynn himself, especially on 'Tunnels'. The album's coda, a brief instrumental (organ) reprise of Shore to Shore, is a nice touch, and a fine way to end the set.I think it's a shame that The Sussex Wit doesn't get billed on the album cover. Flynn is of course the front man and songwriter, but the band is still a big part of the overall sound. They get their own separate insert, but it would have been nice if they had been given equal billing.[PeterReeve]

A must buy! (2008-07-27)

This is a CD on which every song is a masterpiece! The Lyrics are superb and the Vocals are brilliant! This simply must be a part of your collection, I gaurantee that (if you are of sound mind) you will not regret this purchase as the catchy tunes will get you singing along and the highly original sound will fill a genre gap in your collection, which perhaps you didn't even realise was there. You will find yourself listening to these future classics over and over again.A fantastic opoutunity to discover a CD from a rising artist, which is undoubtedly the best release to date this year!A must buy for anyone who likes good music.

Better than Nick Drake... (2008-07-22)

... never thought I'd write those words in the same sentence, but Flynn transcends all others in this genre - not least with the grim humour of his lyrics. There ARE similarities with Drake, the unusually acceptable Englishness of it all (and some of the chord structures), but this is an indispensable three lp's worth of great songs.So, a great epitaph to a dead (pop) culture. Will the last person out of the UK please turn out the lights and make sure this wonderful talent comes with you.

Stonking stuff (2008-06-12)

A very fresh-sounding, spunky bit of folk rock, if ever I've heard one. Ignore the magazine reviews that make comparisons with Nick Drake; to my ears, this doesn't sound a bit like any of Nick Drake's albums -- that's just what burned-out music journos say when they get an acoustic record and they don't have the imagination to think of anything original. The up-tempo songs are musically more like The Levellers (or even The Pogues) with, say, Teddy Thompson doing the vocals. The slower songs are darker downbeats--more Lambchop-ish. Try imagining Brown Trout Blues being sung by a 1990s Bob Dylan and you'll see just how fine a song it is.If you're not sure whether you'll like this, listen to the tracks on JF's MySpace page before you buy (but note that there are slightly different mixes of a couple of them on the record). This is a fantastic debut. It gets 4 stars because I'm expecting the band to do even better in future. Well worth a few quid of anyone's money. More please.

Wonderful (2008-05-29)

An amazing album, with a great array of songs - it flows brilliantly and could quite possibly be the most perfect album of the year.The single versions of some original songs have been brilliantly reworked, and every track is as fresh and well-written as the next. Lyrically, as one would expect from Flynn, the words are thought provoking and interesting.

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