A Larum
 | By Johnny Flynn Lost Highway, 2008, Audio CD Customer Rating: 50 reviews Recommend |
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Lost Highway debut album from British singer songwriter, Johnny Flynn. Flynn's music is brimming over with heart, soul and intelligence. Drawing on diverse influences - The Pixies, Vaughn Williams and anti-folk pioneer Dianne Cluck are all name checked on his Myspace page - Johnny draws on a century's worth of Folk, Blues and Country to create a sound that dwells profoundly in the now.
Acknowledging his debt to these musical traditions but never being overwhelmed by them, Johnny Flynn offers an alternative of substance to those who have grown sick of flimsy singer songwriters and their inane observations. A Larum was recorded deep in the Seattle countryside with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Strokes, Regina Spektor) at his secluded Bear Creek studio. Here they managed to capture the raw energy of Johnny Flynn's shows, underpinning the acoustic guitar, cello and ukulele with muscular drums and bass.
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- The Box
- The Wrote & The Writ
- Tickle Me Pink
- Brown Trout Blues
- Eyeless In Holloway
- Shore To Shore
- Cold Bread
- Wayne Rooney
- Leftovers
- Sally
- Hong Kong Cemetry
- Tunnels
- All The Dogs Are Lying Down
- Shore To Shore - reprise
Title: A Larum
Sales Rank: 2621 in Music
Artist: Johnny Flynn
Label: Lost Highway, 2008-07-29, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Package Dimensions: 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Amazing...
- Great album. Great sound. It is a very whole album. It left me with a feeling of contentment and an urge to listen to it again right away.
I highly recommend it. You cannot not love it. More reviews
- Eclectic, sometimes silly, but with some deeper sentiment
- Let me just begin this review by acknowledging that A LARUM by Johnny Flynn is not for everyone. There are a great number of people for whom the eclectic appeal of this CD will just be lost. Fortunately, I am not one of those people.
The lyrics are odd, the sound is a little offbeat, but for those of us who like a strange bit of silly, the… More reviews
- Strong debut
- Bands from fellow English speaking countries regularly trickle across the Atlantic, Pacific, or the Canadian Border. Yet, it's not always enough to gain an American audience when we have a large number of talented musicians. I mostly think of Paddy Casey's compilation that came out earlier this year and frankly cannot recommend.
However, when I listened to Johny Flynn's… More reviews
- Quality folky album
- I'm reviewing this disk for my college radio station. I'm reminded of early Incredible String Band, The Pogues, The Mekons and Chumbawamba. Songs are clever, warm, soulful and spirited. More reviews
- High expectations dashed.
- Pedestrian writing and execution will see this muddled, cliche ridden record lost among the pack of - actually - forward thinking anti-folk acts that are making their mark on music. This record means absolutely nothing in the scheme of things. More reviews
