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Review: 'Edwyn, James & The Borrowed Band'
'Highlights Of The Low Nights'   

-  Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
-  Genre: 'Alt/Country' -  Release Date: '27.5.22.'

Our Rating:
This is James Edwyn & The Borrowed bands Third album, it was recorded and mixed by Paul Savage, they sound like they should be on tour with Dana Immanuel And The Stolen Band and they do plough a similar musical furrow.

This opens with Gasoline a slow ruminative song, about that now most out of fashion fuel, the cymbals bring a rising sense of tension as the fairly gentle guitar comes in ahead of the grizzled vocals singing about just what his ex-did with that Gasoline and the damage that was wrought.

Is It Enough opens like a far less annoying Beautiful South song as breathy vocals sing about being 5 miles high and the female backing vocals add to the feeling of this being rather sophisticated adult pop with a good brass section with very clever lyrics.

Buy Me A Ticket has a list of diversions that he'd like a ticket for, anything to help change his reality as he feels the need to go down to the river, although I don't think he gets baptized while he's there no matter how much the female backing vocals have a gospel air to them as the organ comes in to add another layer of color and remind me a bit of Lone Justice as he plans his escape.

Hold On has a gentle organ intro into this contemplative song as they seek a little redemption and a way out of all the trouble, they are in.

Sometimes We Fade is a bucolic tale of heartbreak when he's caught holding someone else's hand the rogue that he is, the song then starts to sound like the choir of angels is preparing to help him find a way out of this mess.

Because Of You has a military drum beat to help emphasize the heartbreak at the centre of this tale of despair and heartbreak that has some great organ on it.

Jeremiah is a burnished tale of dark nights and the things that worry you, about being left alone with a certain person in the middle of that night, as the voices whisper in your ears, to increase the sense of dread that isn't present in the musical side of this song.

Love Too Late is full of hope and longing and the feeling that maybe it really is Too Late to kindle that love your searching for, combined with the feeling that you may have missed the boat and the love won't be returned as the country rock builds nicely.

Stargazer features someone trying to do the guest list shuffle to impress someone and getting caught out, that makes me think of the Dave Shufflebottom incident many years ago, either way he'd rather gaze at the stars with you and feel complete and have his foolish heart feel all sentimental and gooey.

Blue opens with some early Dylanesque harmonica before this becomes a very slow song of heartbreak and the Blue feelings of loneliness as your reflecting on being alone once more.

Never In Her Eyes is like an updated Simon & Garfunkel song with some very pretty acoustic guitar as he tells us about what was missing from her eyes, that blank stare she had like she was missing the key ingredient that would have bonded them deeply together for ever.

Vows closes the album with a song of Love and Hate for that special person who you can't live with, but can't live without either, as the push and pull of a tempestuous relationship unfolds one more time over some cool country-tinged rock.

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  author: simonovitch

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