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Acoustic folkster John Aldington's new album 'Songs From The Garden' is
an airy but vibrant offering in that quite typical, eloquent and graceful
British style.
Aldington's music is
all clean-lined, unplugged and refreshingly optimistic sounding. Aldington's
guitar style is one of relentless, crisp, clean picking and punctuative
strumming whilst his vocals are lightly weighted but cleverly assertive -
Aldington's voice cuts through and across his busy but descriptive guitar
work resulting in a joyfully vibrant but workmanlike and mood-enhancing
vibe. Aldington certainly knows how to deliver his poetic ramblings; his
style can be boldly rhythmic and wordy or sparsely augmented and concise -
whatever, whichever, Aldington definitely gets his music across and
certainly begs to be heard.
'Songs From The
Garden' is almost a step back in time; it's open but expressive simplicity
reminiscent of Sarstedt, Donovan, McLean and Rose. But, Aldington's very
much on-the-money here with his wonderfully honest acoustic wares that also
blend in the nuances of Fretwell, Rice and Young to result in a warmly
enticing sound that's musically rich in emotion and loaded with meaningful
lyrics - pretty cool stuff all-in-all!
John Aldington's
'Songs From The Garden' pretty much takes acoustic music back to basics;
just voice and wonderfully executed but restrained guitar delivering
Aldington's open but enticing musical poems. It's simple but it's pretty
compelling. Maybe not quite having the commercial appeal of albums such as
'O' or 'Magpie' by the aforementioned but possibly just as worthy and
equally 'timeless'. 'Songs From The Garden' by John Aldington is a pretty
cool and sophisticated album of ezy 'folk' songs that offers a bit of
respite from some of the more overly-produced works of late - 'Songs From
The Garden' benefits from its inherent accessibility brought about through
its totally stripped-down approach and equally simplistic but deferential
production.
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