Textura - 2009 TOP 10S AND 20S

Textura has named Gareth Dickson's "Collected Recordings" as Number 7 in it's Top 20 albums of 2009! We're very excited about this because Textura is a publication that we hold in very high regard. Read the text below.

07. Gareth Dickson: Collected Recordings (Drifting Falling)

Though Gareth Dickson cites Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Bert Jansch, Robert Johnson, and Nick Drake as influences, it's clearly the latter that stands out from that diverse crowd in Dickson's music; in fact, there are a few songs on Collected Recordings that sound so uncannily like the long-dead legend, they could pass for newly-discovered Drake songs. Throughout Dickson's fifty-minute recording, the finger-picking of his steel-stringed acoustic guitar merges wonderfully with his fragile voice, and the peaceful ambiance created by the slow-motion tracks proves seductive too.

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