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A welcome reissue for one of the loveliest albums of the last couple of years. Windmill is essentially one man, Matthew Thomas Dillon, originally from a place more famous for overpriced trucker's breakfasts, Newport Pagnell, than its music. Clearly heavily influenced by Neil Young and the bands who have tipped a nod in his direction in the last decade or so, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and Mercury Rev, it's a collection of brooding, sensitive ballads, awash with sparse and pensive piano and doleful, brittle vocals. The pitch is nicely varied, between simple key led lo-fi and reflective bedroom angst, and the more strident and confident, string and harmony led numbers such as the gorgeous Fit or tender Tokyo Moon.
Probably not an album to listen to prior to slipping an E and heading off to make some shapes uptown, then... Still, perhaps this time the acclaim this album met with in the broadsheet press and 'in the know' blogs originally will be matched by interest from Joe Public. It truly deserves it.
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