Freshly Minted Pop From The Emerald Isle...
What I love most about writing this blog is the new music that I get introduced to, music that would otherwise pass me by. Music like that of Patrick Kelleher, who's so unknown that his myspace site has only had 1,429 profile views since it was set up in September 2007, he has less than 200 myspace friends and he doesn't even appear on Last FM.
He claims to have been influenced by Sting and Sting alone but the tracks on Patrick's self released 'You Look Cold' EP betray a real mixed bag of influences and a restless spirit. No two tracks are the same ranging from the simply astounding 'Wintertime Doll' which recalls the simple majesty of Black 'Wonderful Life', the orchestral beauty of Scott Walker and the innovative pop of Patrick Wolf to the simple acoustic ditty 'Boy Named Suzie Q' that has echoes of Patrik Fitzgerald, John Otway and an apolitical Billy Bragg ; from the oddly captivating dub electronica of 'Finds You' which is kinda like an indie Irish unchilled Thievery Corporation to the simply odd 'Not Leaving Town' the first minute of which sounds like the windscreen wipers on 1970s Ford Cortina before morphing into OMD at their most experimental.
Rarely have I heard an EP from an artist that sounded so much like a various artists compilation. Bloggers have been widely criticised for over hyping average artists and heaping undeserved hyperbole on the mediocre making it difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. Well Mr Kelleher ain't no average artist and he pisses all over the mediocre and he deserve to be buried up to his neck in hyperbole.
Go Visit
Patrick Kelleher - Myspace
1 comments:
hi,
the sting thing is a piss take.
I always thought "not leaving town" has a "steve reich" feel about it and "coat to wear" and "find you" would sit well between bats for lashes and kate bushs more primal ditties and "bullai fir" on being the first un-irish blog to mention youngman kelleher.
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