The slightly pretentious moniker of Mancunian, David Roocroft derives from a 1913 Ezra Pound haiku - In The Station of the Metro: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd/Petals on a wet black bough".
Roocroft was once a member of The Wandering Step and Former Bullies and ,more significantly, has played a couple of shows as part of Daniel Johnston's live band. This is his first foray as a solo artist.
On this debut limited edition single he shows that when not reading haikus he has been taking copious notes from the glitch meets indie rock of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows'.
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Fortunately, he manages to turn this into a homage rather than a straight copycat exercise and is helped by the affecting breathy melancholy tone to his voice.
Both songs are crisply produced and well played - he needs to stamp his own personality on the material a little more but if he can maintain this quality over a full length album, he could well be on to something.
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