This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
If you’ve never listened to Eastbourne resident David Ford, you’re probably living on another planet.
As if 2006's Sorry For All The Trouble I’ve Caused wasn’t brilliant enough,
he’s gone (and almost) done it all over again, though the angst has mutated in
to a slighly less agressive format.
The bulk of the album is full of superb torch songs. A vocal crossbreed of James
Blunt and Damien Rice, there’s a clear indication of his asault on the singles
charts is Motown-styled Decimate, drawing heavily on the Funk Brothers '60s
beats.
Nothing else matches it in terms of popiness, though an uplifting Nobody Tell Me What To Do
comes close enough to be an excellent next single. Sorry For All... possessed
a great deal of pain, which morphed into anger, whereas, here it’s a tad melancholic,
signalled by the break-up song Go To Hell, as he articulately tackles the
anguish, accompanied by swirling strings and jangly bits.
The Damien Rice melancholy returns on power ballad I’m Alright Now, yet
again, heartache explodes via huge orchestration and heartfelt lyrics. The romantic
doom is highlighted on Train, as ‘he’ prepares to leave his lover on a
journey to who knows where.
Requiem is home made pizza of Dylanesque proportions, starting in low-glo
format until it erupts wildly for the close, with some sensual sax tailing it
off. Topping an excellent album, though not quite as good as his debut, but
still very good, a countryfied (steel guitar etc) And So You Fell plods
gently out.
1. Go To Hell
2. Decimate
3. I’m Alright Now
4. Song For The Road
5. Train
6. St.Peter
7. Nobody Tells Me What vTo Do
8. Requiem
9. ....And So You Fell
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
Review & concert pics copyright © Elly Roberts, 2004-2010.