BRETT ANDERSON - SLOW ATTACK
VÖ: 30.10.2009
Label/Vertrieb: Ear Music/ Edel Records
Online/Presse Promotion
“What satisfies me is music, what satisfies me is writing songs, what satisfies me is making albums. That’s where I find my satisfaction. The trappings that come with that sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. I can take it or leave it.”
Brett Anderson, September 2009.
Citing Argentinean film score composer Gustavo Santaolalla and British folk legend Bert Jansch as influences, his new album “Slow Attack” sees Brett Anderson exploring the abstract rather than the lyrical, choosing to abandon traditionally narrative songs and instead, as he himself puts it, ousing words as impressionistic brushstrokes. In equal parts both cinematic and pastoral, the album’s instrumentation heavily features woodwind and stringed instruments, lending it a gorgeously rich quality. Perhaps taking inspiration from the amorphous beauty of solo Mark Hollis / late Talk Talk, this, Brett's third solo album seems to exist in its own space and time.
