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Organ Grinder Press - interviews and reviews
Fireworks Night: Russell Barker's review of 'It's a Wide, Wide Sea'.
Jun 9, 2005 |
"It's A Wide, Wide Sea" the debut album from Fireworks Night is a lush, dreamscaping album, taking you into the deepest recesses of your imagination and beyond.
It starts with the splendid boy/girl duet of 'The Gold Leaves', which resembles the Tindersticks in voice and tone and pace, yet is never in danger of becoming a pastiche. Then it's heartbreak time courtesy of 'The Shiver In Your Bones', the cracked, weary and distant vocals intoning the lyrics over a winding banjo, the eeriness only accentuated by some discordant guitar interruptions.
Fireworks Night have a habit of making beautiful downbeat ballads. Witness the croaky old country of 'Our Tiny Hearts', the female almost torch song vocals of 'Something Like A Trembling' and the Lambchop rocking on the front porch of 'Down To The Lake'. All wonderful things.
'Tied To The Moon' uses the barest instrumentation to showcase James's remarkable voice before he goes all Wayne Coyne on us via the church organ swell of 'Long Time Healing'. After the warm duet of 'A Picture Worth Framing' the album comes to a close with the title track, a sad tune of leaving over a soft keyboard bed.
"It's A Wide Wide Sea" is an album well worth seeking out, a truly wonderful piece of work.
Written by Russell Barker (www.russellsreviews.co.uk), June 2005.
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