Sleep at Your Own Speed

Butcher the Bar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 27, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Morr Music / M.M.
• ASIN: B0015LWKK6
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,122 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This is the debut full-length release by Britain's Joel Nicholson for Morr Music. He has described the cast list of his intimate band as "me and my bedroom." In Manchester, the songs of Butcher the Bar fill a small house, but soon these walls won't be the only ones in which they live. "Make this house a home" could be the phrase that matches this atmosphere. He sounds a little like Elliot Smith, with the persuasive power of his carefully-crafted chords and the immediacy of his softly-spoken vocals. An artist like Joel Nicholson would have been called a singer-songwriter before this word became a catch-all phrase. In the meantime, quiet is still the new loud and home-cooked tracks are still the tastiest and most comforting of all. Sleep At Your Own Speed is a coming-of-age novel consisting of 13 short stories.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raising the bar..., August 8, 2008

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M. Miltiadou (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleep at Your Own Speed (Audio CD)

A most amazing blend of respectable influences bring this artist to the forefront of modern indie folk. Think elliot smith if he was alive today...