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Exclamation at Asterisk Hash
A one-off split EP from three songwriters with different slants on acoustic music, Exclamation at Asterisk Hash comes courtesy of some of the UK most promising solo talents, between them sharing stages with Frank Turner, Chris T-T, Glasvegas, Pete and the Pirates, Mumford & Sons and Johnny Foreigner amongst others. Released by Broken Tail/Josaka on 13 July 2009.
Bookending the record, Cheltenham's Jim Lockey offers up a fragile slice of folk-pop in the same vein as Sam Duckworth's Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, this summer also seeing the arrival of Lockey's second album, Atlases. He was recently named on Tiscali's list of folk artists to watch in 2009 alongside the likes of Frank Turner and Billy Bragg. Oh, and Ben Marwood. Finally following on from last year's critically-acclaimed mini-album This Is Not What You Had Planned, Marwood has found favour with Artrocker, cemented himself as a firm radio favourite with the likes of Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, and his single 'Five Little Secrets' was recently picked up by The Times' website as a track of the day for the kind of endlessly-twisting lyrics that exemplified the release. If Marwood is the record's quiet side, Oxygen Thief is the other end of the spectrum; raw, throaty and intensely loud; a ramshackle approach to music which condenses the ferocity of a rock band into a solo format, and a sound which led to recent praise from Rock Sound.
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