I’m perplexed. I received David Lawrie’s latest offering a week or so back, gave it a spin and rather liked it, so I checked out his set at Galtres Festival and was... bewildered. Nonplussed. Horrified, even. Was this even the same artist? So I revisited ‘Over, Under’ to ascertain whether or not I’d been drunk when I’d heard it the first time, but no, it was still pretty good. This led me to ponder the question, ‘who is David Lawrie?’ Are there two radically different sides to the man, a Jekyll and Hyde type character? Did his Galtres set catch him on an off night, or was it some kind of ruse, some kind of perverse experiment?
I wouldn’t like to say, but regardless, his performance was bold and audacious, and I will say this: ‘Over, Under’ is a simple folk song at heart, but with a careful and unusual arrangement of glitchy looped rhythms and a chiming, interweaving latticework of sound by way of accompaniment to David’s warm, lilting vocals, the end result is quite striking. There’s no questioning his abilities, that’s for sure.
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Despite not being big on remixes, the alternative versions complement rather than obfuscate the atmosphere of the original, and if it’s any way representative of the upcoming album, ‘Dorothea’s Boat’, then it should be well worth investigating...
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