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Just under a week ‘til the launch of Adrian Crowley’s stunning new album Season of the Sparks. The reaction from critics has been overwhelming. See this outstanding artist at work next Wednesday 22nd April at The Sugar Club. tickets are just €10.
“Time, longevity and commitment have allowed him to develop into the best songwriter in the country by stealth… a batch of beautiful Al Stewart/Leonard Cohenesque pastotal reflections.” 5/5 Hot Press
“On this, Adrian Crowley's fifth album, there is so much to latch onto that at times it's almost overpowering… A shoo-in for the chart's top end of the best Irish records this year.” Sunday Tribune 4/5
“an album of satisfyingly rich textures, swirling mellotrons and weeping strings augmenting the occasionally stark piano arrangements” Sunday Business Post, 4/5
“His growing confidence as an artist and wordsmith has been evident with each recording he has put out, and now, on his upcoming fifth album, Dublin-based songwriter Adrian Crowley has come into his own” Jim Carroll, Irish Times
POD Concerts presents
ADRIAN CROWLEY – ALBUM LAUNCH
Wed April 22nd
The Sugar Club - Leeson Street – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €10 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.myspace.com/adriancrowley
www.adriancrowley.com
'SEASON OF THE SPARKS'
The new album by ADRIAN CROWLEY
Released on Tin Angel Records, April 22nd 2009.
Adrian Crowley's fifth album, 'Season Of The Sparks' comes to light just over a year after 'Long Distance Swimmer' his Choice Music Prize- nominated breakthrough record.
Written almost in its entirety in Adrian's attic the album was co -produced by Stephen Shannon and Crowley at Experimental Audio in Dublin. The recordings were made over fourteen separate days with many of the songs being captured in single live takes.
For this album Galway raised / Dublin based Crowley calls on celebrated baroque string player Marja Gaynor and long time touring partners Emma Smith & Vince Sipprell of the London avant garde string duo 'Geese' (who recently collaborated with Hot Chip and Robert Wyatt).
In the past year Crowley has toured with Silver Jews, Vetiver, James Yorkston, played Electric Picnic and has continued his strong alliance with Scotland's Fence Collective.
With 'Season Of The Sparks' Crowley leads us in turn through the intimate and the epic while shining a light on new creative territory, his love of words and distinctive voice as bright and clear as ever.
In short, this may well be Adrian Crowley's finest album so far.
PRAISE FOR LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER:
Crowley's rich brown croon inevitably recalls Nick Drake or Tim Buckley, but a more apposite musical touchstone is Badly Drawn Boy, or the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon eschewing his clever-clever wordplay in order to sink into a sepia reverie. (The Guardian Jan 2008)
a lo-furnished, snug, auburn-tinged folk album which calls to mind Bill Callahan, Johnny Cash and Edwyn Collins clinking Toby mugs in a country hotel (NME Jan 2008)
ABOUT ADRIAN CROWLEY:
Adrian Crowley has toured extensively in the UK, USA and Europe with Adem and James Yorkston Damon & Naomi (ex- Galaxie 500), and Hood. He has also shared the bill with Animal Collective, Jose Gonzalez, Fence Collective, Arab Strap, Badly Drawn Boy and has recorded with Steve Albini.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Ryan Adams named Crowley one of his favourite underground songwriters. Here's what some other people have been saying about this ground-breaking artist . . .
FROM LOSING TODAY:
". . . the most brooding moment of shadow filled pop this side of Black Heart Procession. Quite personal and quite simply perfect."
FROM DREAM MAGAZINE (USA):
"Frozen into a snowbank of deep sorrow. Slow ages of exquisitely rendered details and craft supporting these gentle soft-spoken insular folk songs.
THE NEW YORKER (USA):
"Crowley transcends the limitations of his chosen genre thanks to a deep, captivating voice and a light touch."
PLAN B MAGAZINE:
"Like Nick Drake strung-out on the minor chords and major catastrophes in the lives of Low."
HOT PRESS:
"If there were any justice in the world, Crowley's time would be right now, for this music is consummately, overwhelmingly and blindingly gorgeous."
“Time, longevity and commitment have allowed him to develop into the best songwriter in the country by stealth… a batch of beautiful Al Stewart/Leonard Cohenesque pastotal reflections.” 5/5 Hot Press
“On this, Adrian Crowley's fifth album, there is so much to latch onto that at times it's almost overpowering… A shoo-in for the chart's top end of the best Irish records this year.” Sunday Tribune 4/5
“an album of satisfyingly rich textures, swirling mellotrons and weeping strings augmenting the occasionally stark piano arrangements” Sunday Business Post, 4/5
“His growing confidence as an artist and wordsmith has been evident with each recording he has put out, and now, on his upcoming fifth album, Dublin-based songwriter Adrian Crowley has come into his own” Jim Carroll, Irish Times
POD Concerts presents
ADRIAN CROWLEY – ALBUM LAUNCH
Wed April 22nd
The Sugar Club - Leeson Street – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €10 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.myspace.com/adriancrowley
www.adriancrowley.com
'SEASON OF THE SPARKS'
The new album by ADRIAN CROWLEY
Released on Tin Angel Records, April 22nd 2009.
Adrian Crowley's fifth album, 'Season Of The Sparks' comes to light just over a year after 'Long Distance Swimmer' his Choice Music Prize- nominated breakthrough record.
Written almost in its entirety in Adrian's attic the album was co -produced by Stephen Shannon and Crowley at Experimental Audio in Dublin. The recordings were made over fourteen separate days with many of the songs being captured in single live takes.
For this album Galway raised / Dublin based Crowley calls on celebrated baroque string player Marja Gaynor and long time touring partners Emma Smith & Vince Sipprell of the London avant garde string duo 'Geese' (who recently collaborated with Hot Chip and Robert Wyatt).
In the past year Crowley has toured with Silver Jews, Vetiver, James Yorkston, played Electric Picnic and has continued his strong alliance with Scotland's Fence Collective.
With 'Season Of The Sparks' Crowley leads us in turn through the intimate and the epic while shining a light on new creative territory, his love of words and distinctive voice as bright and clear as ever.
In short, this may well be Adrian Crowley's finest album so far.
PRAISE FOR LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER:
Crowley's rich brown croon inevitably recalls Nick Drake or Tim Buckley, but a more apposite musical touchstone is Badly Drawn Boy, or the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon eschewing his clever-clever wordplay in order to sink into a sepia reverie. (The Guardian Jan 2008)
a lo-furnished, snug, auburn-tinged folk album which calls to mind Bill Callahan, Johnny Cash and Edwyn Collins clinking Toby mugs in a country hotel (NME Jan 2008)
ABOUT ADRIAN CROWLEY:
Adrian Crowley has toured extensively in the UK, USA and Europe with Adem and James Yorkston Damon & Naomi (ex- Galaxie 500), and Hood. He has also shared the bill with Animal Collective, Jose Gonzalez, Fence Collective, Arab Strap, Badly Drawn Boy and has recorded with Steve Albini.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Ryan Adams named Crowley one of his favourite underground songwriters. Here's what some other people have been saying about this ground-breaking artist . . .
FROM LOSING TODAY:
". . . the most brooding moment of shadow filled pop this side of Black Heart Procession. Quite personal and quite simply perfect."
FROM DREAM MAGAZINE (USA):
"Frozen into a snowbank of deep sorrow. Slow ages of exquisitely rendered details and craft supporting these gentle soft-spoken insular folk songs.
THE NEW YORKER (USA):
"Crowley transcends the limitations of his chosen genre thanks to a deep, captivating voice and a light touch."
PLAN B MAGAZINE:
"Like Nick Drake strung-out on the minor chords and major catastrophes in the lives of Low."
HOT PRESS:
"If there were any justice in the world, Crowley's time would be right now, for this music is consummately, overwhelmingly and blindingly gorgeous."
