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Rating: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Surely the name isn't the most attractive, but the music within this musical project is truly delightful.
This is a one-man band, where the one-man is Sam Duckworth (a little over twenty-year-old Englishman), armed only with his voice and laptop. Having completed the (albeit brief and sparse) introduction of the artist, I focus on the album in question, namely "The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager", in the reviewer's very personal opinion, a (small) masterpiece.
If I had to categorize it into a genre, I would adhere to those chosen by the press, namely a mix between Indie, Folktronica, and Chillout: ideal for forgetting all problems for about forty minutes, to relax the nerves and take a break.
Album ingredients: acoustic guitar and the warm voice of good Sam, to which electronic beats, keyboards, strings join in the course of listening, all while maintaining a safe distance from pompousness: the sound is rich and polished, yet there is an underlying simplicity in the (splendid) songs.
"If I had a cape, that made me disappear, I'd fly around the world for days just so I could hear, the rich count their dimes whilst the Africans cry, and record it on a tape and stream it high across the sky..." from "Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly"
If you add to all this the socially engaged lyrics, you get what for me is an album that lacks nothing: warm and relaxing atmosphere, tracks that gently spread into the heart never to leave, words worth singing.
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