Findlay Brown Love Will Find You (Advance) 2009 DV8[

Artist: Findlay Brown
Title: Love WIll Find You
Label: This Is Music
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 203kbit av.
Time: 00:34:51
Size: 53.66 mb
Rip Date: 2009-02-20
Str Date: 2009-05-25

1. Love Will Find You 3:18
2. Nobody Cared 3:56
3. All That I Have 2:40
4. Everybody Needs Love 4:33
5. That's Right 2:27
6. Teardrops Lost In The Rain 3:23
7. Holding Back The Night 4:19
8. If I Could Do It Again 2:37
9. I Still Want You 2:04
10. I Had A Dream 5:34

Release Notes:

'Love Will Find You' is the stunning second album from
Yorkshire man Findlay Brown, produced by former Suede
guitarist turned uber producer Bernard Butler, and it heralds
a dramatic change in musical direction.

The booming echoes of the Ronettes in the drums of the opening
title track immediately lay bare this album's debt to vintage
pop, but Findlay's Orbison-esque vocals create a more
sumptuous emotional swell that make this so much more than an
exercise in retro stylistics.

Elsewhere the gorgeous 'Everybody Needs Love' and 'I Had A
Dream' offer the warm familiarity of melodies you think you
know and love, but can't quite remember where from, as if they
have already become weaved into your DNA from years of being
lost in music. 'Holding Back The Night' is an upbeat,
beautifully arranged track with Findlay's trademark sonorous
vocals enhancing a magical song, while 'Nobody Cared' harks
back to The Righteous Brothers, a vintage, melodic song at its
best. More esoteric are the Joe-Meek-produces-The-Righteous-
Brothers sweep of 'I Still Want You', punctuated with
'Telstar- style electric organ, the weary waltz of 'If I
Could Do It Again' and the urgent jive of 'That's Right'.

So there are tales of the unexpected here if you want them,
but lyrically as well as musically, this is an album which is
happy not to reinvent the wheel. 'I wanted the words to be
simple and straightforward too,' Findlay admits. 'Both records
I have done have been romantic records, but the first album
was more personal, whereas I wanted these to be universal
themes, which are love songs but are also spiritual,
reflecting my feelings about the world in general. It sounds
daft but I do feel like I'm on a spiritual journey, and this
is just the next step.'

And it's not just a small step, it's a giant leap. On one
level, you could be forgiven for regarding this as a very
conservative record, steeped as it is in songwriting values as
old as rock'n'roll itself. But regarded in context alongside
his previous work and the musical climate that surrounds him,
you realise Findlay Brown has made the kind of radical
creative departure that few mainstream artists ever dare to
attempt.

Most importantly, you'll soon realise they don't write songs
like this any more. Another piece of hoary old wisdom that
we're not afraid to throw out there, and another cliche which
will seem truer than ever the more you listen to this bold,
refreshing and beautiful album.