Lost In A Sound is Ian M. Baileys latest collaboration with Daniel Wylie the fourth album they have recorded together. The string arrangements are by Ian Gregson.
The album opens with Rooks that has the duo's classic Byrds like sound, for a song about the terrors of going off to war, a song that feels far more current than it should, reminding us of how dreadful the untimely demise of youthful soldiers can be, who were only a few years ago playing games at home with friends, the gentle bucolic backing with carefully paced guitar solo, allows them to fool you into not realizing how serious a song this is, it sounds too nice.
I'll Be There To Save You appears to rework a medieval folk melody and virginal part, to supple beautiful effect, they try to save that drowning maiden, strings unfurling like a rope cast into the waters to grab onto.
White Whale has a gentle beauty like you are sitting calmly on the deck of a boat, watching the White Whales jumping and swimming in the ocean beside you.
Deep Blue Water has gorgeous harmonious vocals perfect to gaze into that Deep Blue Water once more, wondering just what kind of slide guitar makes that sound.
New Years Eve 2010 looks back to that one night, back when things seemed calmer and saner than they do today, this isn't a happy tale though, things are falling apart within the jangling guitars, the sorrow of a New Year's Eve breakup unfurl.
Desert Star has a jaunty spry guitar intro to this bewitching instrumental that eventually leads into Welcome To The Desert and the blasted wilderness you may have to navigate, to the sound of sixties inflected melodies and coyote calling guitar brays.
Never Read The Signs takes us deeper into the desert with shimmering strings set against a dark tinged guitar and lighter visions of what may come in those desert lands.
Don't Let The Garden Die feed it and make it bloom while listening to some high quality gardening tunes like this, dipping into the hippy ideal of communing with nature and nurturing your surroundings, making the world a better place, this music does so calmly and serenely drawing the listener in.
The album closes with The Desert Could Be Mars a slow gentle look at the sun blasted landscape along a dry riverbed, a seemingly dead landscape to seek an oasis within, the strings grow voluptuously, before the guitars build a mirage of a better place to be, this is all just a mirage.
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