Maigret Jnr - Sick Friends EP torrent

Maigret Jnr - Sick Friends EP

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The title track from the debut EP from Ru Davies, AKA Maigret Jnr. [Soundcloud], features a bouncy bassline, an R&B backbeat, effective use of a string section and some almost tropical-sounding guitar rearing its head mid-way through the song, which lasts all of six minutes. To top it all off, we have Davies’s portentous baritone and bleak lyrical outlook (he’s not just drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen for his voice, you know), as well as one of the most arresting opening lines we’ve heard all year: ‘There’s friends of mine who are trying to get better, but it’s a waste of time in this kind of weather’. Things get even gloomier from there, but the contrast between the delivery of the lyrics and the music that surrounds it could not be more marked, and it’s this contrast, not to mention the melange of styles that Davies throws together, that make Sick Friends one of the most compelling debuts of the year.

Label: Make Mine
Copyright: (c) 2012 Make Mine

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