Everyone You Hold
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Everyone You Hold (1997) is similar to Fireships in mood, but with the soundscapes more complex. This album proved difficult for me to appreciate at first - its subtle merits hidden under the quiet and even downbeat atmosphere - but with time the songs revealed their textures as memorable and with an emotional core.
Instrumentally, the album is predominantly coloured by keyboard and electric guitar soundwashes, with multi-tracked voices adding to a sometimes ethereal atmosphere. |
There is a sense of deja vu with the track Nothing Comes, being melodically and instrumentally reminiscent of Something About Ysabel’s Dance on the Out Of Water album.
Highlights on Everyone You Hold may not be immediately apparent. The opening title track is stunning, but the organ and guitar interlude in Bubble made me long for his more directly passionate songs on earlier albums.
If you like this album, then try :
Fireships
None of the Above
And Close As This
What Now?
This
The Thin Man Sings Ballads
performed by:
Peter Hammill
Manny Elias - drums
Stuart Gordon - violin
Hugh Banton - organ
David Lord - keyboards
Holly & Beatrice Hammill
- soprano vox
track listing:
1. Everyone You Hold
2. Personality
3. Nothing Comes
4. From the Safe House
5. Phosphorescence
6. Falling Open
7. Bubble
8. Can Do
9. Tenderness