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Tottenham Journal
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The Sparrow and The Crow in Hi-Fi News Album Choice


27 January 2010
Hi Fi News, Album Choice
JB

How This Pennsylvania-based singer-songwriter has managed to release two albums before this astonishing piece of work without me noticing, I'll never know.  His songs have already appeared on Gray's Anatomy and General Hospital so you may have heard him without realising, and the critics have been falling over themselves to compare him to Elliott Smith, bon Iver and Sujan Stevens.  I'd say that, on this gorgeously understated album at least, he's more single-minded than any of those.  He has the most delicate and engaging voice I've heard in ages, capable of pulling you into his stripped-down songs from the first note you hear.  This is distilled essence of heartbreak.  Don't say I didn't warn you.
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