Have you picked up your copies of Eds two most recent records yet? They are both available on CD & 12 in the UK & Scandinavia or worldwide digitally via iTunes, Amazon, etc. Praise for Time of Dust: Alluring. - The Independent **** Sensational. - The Sunday Times Time of Dust is bleaker than his past work, marrying a dark heart with epic hooks and choruses like a darker Elbow. - The Guardian **** A masterly lurch to the dark side by the multi-talented maestro - Uncut Brooding, theatrical elegance with a glitchy twist… A dusky delight. - NME Ornate romantic balladry… curls around the listener like tendrils of smoke. - FT As warm and dark as the real ale he brews. The Times **** Part-time brewer of dark ales, full-time composer of dark tales. - Scottish Daily Express A gorgeous noirish set of cinematic songs with a bittersweet emotional core. - Telegraph Praise for Back Into the Woods: ...nine gorgeous songs that sit beautifully together. - The Quietus …one of the most beautiful, heart-breakingly tender albums of the last year, if not decade, if not ever. 9/10 - Clash ...may be his best release to date. - The Sunday Times ...elegant 6th album from underrated national treasure. - Uncut “...reflecting wistfully on William Blake and Mozart’s commercial failure.... moments of deft, delicate brilliance here to remind us of what a gifted songwriter he is.... Recorded in one night at Abbey Road.... like being in the front row of an exceptionally cosy concert.... Harcourt’s lovely oaken voice rustles and creaks as if he’s singing directly into the listener’s ear, while the piano chords seem to tremble through your skin.... breathtaking.... a subtle and seductive delight.” - BBC “...Harcourt alone at the piano, delivering lushly romantic odes to “underdogs” and “the dreamers who pay no heed to good advice”. Lyrics casting him as a repentant roué saved by family life call for a grizzled Tom Waits groan; yet the singer’s gentler tones lend the songs a rousing, optimistic air.” - FT Weekend
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:03:06 +0000