Album review: James Yuill – Movement in a Storm
James Yuill - Movement In A Storm
Whenever I hear of a singer/songwriter with a first name of James it sends a shiver down my spine and fills me with a sense of dread. It’s not that I have an issue with the name ‘James’ but it evokes images of grown men like James Blunt and James Morrison crying over their acoustic guitars in an act so appallingly wet it makes me want to slap them around the head with a large haddock. So you can imagine my joy when this turned up on my doorstep. However before I was able to write it off without hearing a note (tempting as it might have been) I noticed that James Yuill’s latest release is on the ultra-cool Moshi Moshi, a label whose name is synonymous with quality. Maybe, just maybe things might turn out ok.
Kicking off with a hypnotic electro beat ‘Give You Away’ starts with the lines ‘Nobody knows it but it’s true/I hate myself and I hate you too’ , hmmm, I’m not liking where this is going. By the time ‘Crying For Hollywood’ (You discovered a rainbow with me) and ‘First In Line’ (Living happily in my own skin’) have finished it has all become clear, these are basically the same wet songs peddled by Messrs Blunt and Morrison masquerading as electropop. You can call me a music snob but whilst this self-pitying bollocks might be suitable as background music for a dinner party it doesn’t belong in the record collection of a genuine music fan. Shame on you Moshi Moshi.
1/5
