One Last Fruit (label)
04 October 2010 (released)
03 October 2010
Damon Gough has produced some lovely music in the past and this is right there alongside his best.
This is lush and rich music with a keening sense of the off centre tied to all the hope of youth and young love,
The album is being packaged with a re-dux by long time collaborator Andy Votel in one version and from past history that one will be worth checking out.
The music has huge orchestration and subtle little electronic quirks but you get the sense that you are hearing a fully developed talent – very confident and happy with his music – very little like the faltering young man who made his first steps on the Mancunian stage 10 or so years ago.
The album demands that you listen to it rather than putting it on as background – in the car it is actually rather annoying – but the rewards are there in little touches like the strings and piano that shuffle ‘It’s What I’m Thinking’ along or the pedal steel guitar swooping and diving on the same track.
He can do the ‘ordinary’ as on ‘I Saw You Walk Away’ but even there it has a lovely lilt to the song and the strings are simply gorgeous – not saccharine sweet but more honeyed.
Every time you cue this one up you get something else from it and I get the feeling I am going to be listening for a while to come.
Excellent album and good to hear him progressing.
