Lovingly pinched from Scott’s Music Reviews: Nick Saloman is back with his first new Bevis Frond record in 7 years. His life was quite complex the last few years and he left London for Hastings and the lyrics are very inspired and thoughtful and the double vinyl version is very nice and even signed by the man himself! The album features 18 tracks with a really diverse range of tracks from uptempo melodic stuff like ‘Heavy Hand‘ and ‘Stupid Circle’ to solo piano songs (‘The Leaving of London’-beautiful).
‘Speedboat‘ has some nice backwards guitars to start and is quite uptempo in the breaks with a nice wah guitar. ‘An Old Vice’ is a track with a nice melodic groove. ‘Why have you been fighting Me’ is a power ballad of sorts with powerful lyrics. I really like this track. ‘The Divide‘ is an acoustic ballad with just bass, guitar and vocals. ‘Reanimation’ is the most hard rocking track on the record and really hails back to the records from 1990-1993 era with some nice double tracks solos (in fact taken in one take, Nick said….).
Continue reading: Scott’s Music Reviews: Bevis Frond- The Leaving of London (Woronzow).
Tags: Album of the day, lo-fi guitar freakout, Nick Saloman, psychedelic rock, Scott's Music Reviews, The Bevis Frond, The Leaving of London, Walthamstow, Woronzow
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Album Of The Day? This is rapidly lining up to be my album of the year!
Nick’s been away (in terms of The Bevis Frond anyway) for seven long years since Hit Squad, so I suspect that us fans would have been happy with anything.
However, what we got was a real stormer of an album plus an incredible gig (two nights ago) with a promise of more (European) dates to come. Go see him if you get the chance, and buy this album – neither experience will disappoint!
FWIW, there’s also a fine Bevis Frond 7″ EP available called Estate, which will be sold on tour or can be bought from eBay.
hello sean,
if you like da frond’s Leaving of London you must buy immediately Valedictory Songs ,his most romantic album with outstanding overwhelming frond ballads
I hope for a visit of BF in Holland in 2012 ….
perhaps in Tilburgs Roadburn..
isn’t it Walter Hoeijmakers?
greetz a.sloot
groningen
Hi Anno,
I am a big fan of Valedictory songs as it happens. In fact I’d struggle to name a Frond album that I don’t like, and I think there’s only one I don’t have on CD or vinyl.
Fingers crossed for a gig near you in 2012!
Best,
Sean