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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Slick folk, best served raw. James Yorkston’s world-weary vocals wax poetic from the same lyrical palette as Nick Drake – loss, nature, love, all things blighted and beautiful. The music – banjo, fiddle, pipes and accordion, teasing percussion – treads familiar folk turf, despite this LP being produced by expert sample noodler, Kieren Hebden of Four Tet fame. The brooding, melancholic whole is broken by the rousing Shipwreckers, and while this album is good, there’s a slightly banal slickness to it: this style of musical fare is best served raw and was done infinitely more powerfully back in the days of 60s UK folk. James Yorkston And The Athletes – Just Beyond The River, released 20 September 04 on Domino.
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