Highly Recommended

Danny Saul - Harsh, Final

(2009 / White Box)
electronic / experimental / ambient

The debut solo album from Manchester ‘singer-songwriter’ Danny Saul is an intriguing affair, as is immediately apparent from the beautifully haunting artwork. This is an aesthetic which carries across in to the music. It begins with a slow acoustic guitar which is soon accompanied by a bed of swirling celestial tones gradually building layer upon layer of beautiful textures, the crowning one being that of Saul’s resonant vocals. What begun as a fairly straightforward track fans out in to a sprawling sonic collage full of crackling tape hiss, and establishes Saul has more of an experimental ambient artist than your standard acoustic warbler. (God Is In The TV)

My Rating: 4/5