Album Reviews: The Woodditon Wives Club - Alex Highton
by Gary Smith
If you're in mind for a really relaxed and chilled out album, then Alex Highton provides the perfect acoustic album for you right here. The solo singer songwriter from Cambridge, UK has a talent for fingerpicked and rythym acoustic guitar, whilst still bringing a fabulous, raw stlye of vocals.
'Village Life' is the first album on this CD, where from the outset you can already start feeling more chilled out with the beautiful picking on the guitar, and then Alex brings in the vocals, sung softly, yet with the grunt behind a true rock star's voice and it just seems to work..!
'I Left The City' with this next track, with a more upbeat rythym to the situation, with some jazz blues piano melodies to accompany the track which gives a nice extra layer to the album, before falling back in to a dream like state with 'Look After Yourself' which shortly follows.
Mostly made up of farily short songs, Woodditton Wives Club provides a nice mix of beats and rythyms while still keeping a nice relaxed general mood to the CD, and perfect for listening to on a cold Sunday evening with a hot mug of chocolate to keep you warm.
'We'll Al Have Fun' is a good stand-out track, mostly piano led, and as you can imagine is alot more upbeat with memorable lyrics. Alex also provides a very memorable blues track on his views on 'Smoking', and how great it actually is!
There are some classic moments throughout this album where you can hear some possible influences shining through - where 'Panic' has a partial likeness to Pink Floyd, and 'A Song For Someone' has an essence of the Beatles - what with their chorused vocals.
The album ends on the most upbeat and shortest song of the album, 'Dirty Rugs', the style is reminiscent of the style that used to be played at the end of some shows to end things on a lighter note - with a sudden finish to round everything off.
The album as whole works perfectly in sync with eachother and has been a real treat to review. We hope to see more from Alex in the future, and hopefully in one of our own future gigs..!
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 Time: 4:19 PM
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