Cole Stacey - Postcards From Lost Places 
Release Date: Out Now
This new collection of songs from Cole Stacey is not going to make any Party Mega Mix compilations or playlists but if you're after considered songs with a real sense of heart and evocative melodies then you might just be in the market for this one. 'Postcards From Lost Places' opens with 'Quiet Is Louder', an immediately icy and desolate song which speaks of loneliness but the hope one can find in the clarity of being alone. On 'Hard Times (Come Again Go More)' hangs around a haunting piano melody and intimate vocal delivery before 'All We Are' comes in with a quietly stirring energy in the vein of Crowded House.
There is a Spring-like hope to 'If It Helps' which helps to thaw some of the coldness before 'For Old Time's Sake' brings a melting sound like water drops falling from branches into an urgent river. The intimacy Stacey creates on this album is both impressive and humbling with tracks like the spoken word of 'Last Supper' and the morning-after-the-stormness of 'Sugarcanes' feeling like a window into someone else's life. The soundscape of 'Castles By The Sea' is like a wild Irish cliff singing songs to tempt you to your doom while 'The Gatehouse' is one of those songs that makes you want to sing along in your best belting voice.
On the path to the front door of this house, 'Feast Or Fire' treats us to a lilting folk song with dark, layered vocals that leads in to the rhythmic pitter-patter of 'Song Of The Moor', developing into another Finn-esque composition. The album finishes with a poem lullaby that finds Stacey in rich storytelling mode and even richer fireside timbre. This is a fine whisky of an album, one to be sipped, savoured, and breathed in, not one chug back like so much cheap vodka.
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