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Butcher The Bar: ''Sleep At Your Own Speed''
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Out of 7 votes - Similar Artists: Teamforest, Eliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake, M. Ward, James Taylor
Out of 7 votes
- Location: United Kingdom
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Alternative Folk
Editor's review
Sure, Joel Nicholson would love to be Nick Drake, but that doesn't make him a Nick Drake wannabe. The perfectly titled "Sleep at Your Own Speed" is run on tight melodies and sharp lyrics. In an era without a pre-eminent moper (Elliott Smith being gone, too), it amounts to a strong application.
Biography
Joel Nicholson has just packed the removal cases, his guitar and the instruments. It's good that his music is so easy to transport from one place to another, between the places and to the people. Once, the 22-year-old Briton has described the cast list of his intimate band as "me and my bedroom". In Manchester the songs of Butcher the Bar fill a small house now. But soon these walls won't be the single ones in which they live.
Melancholy, deceleration and reduction are Joel Nicholson's musical topics. Folk and postfolk, old and new heroes (Nick Drake, Paul Simon but also Sufjan Stevens), searching, finding and letting go.
