Blog: Bowlegs Music Review

Nick Talbot’s successive albums as Gravenhurst have seen his initial intricate folk picking overtaken by a more psychedelic, full band sound – an interest made explicit with his extended take on The Kinks’ See My Friends from 2005’s Fires in Distant Buildings . The Ghost in Daylight , Gravenhurst’s fifth, narrows focus back onto Talbot’s own performing and arranging talents, but it’s an album rich in variety and interest. The instrumentation is sparse, with Talbot’s delicate guitar backed by a variety of soft, antique keyboard tones, but the production is warm, lending the [...]