release date: Jun. 8, 2010
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,07]
producer: Richard Hawley and Colin Elliot
label: Mute Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Remorse Code" (4,5 / 5) - 2. "Shallow Brown" (feat. the Smoke Fairies) - 3. "The Ellan Vannin Tragedy" (feat. the Smoke Fairies) - 4. "There's a Storm a Comin' "
An ep in between album releases. The first track is the epic track from Truelove's Gutter (2009), which means beautiful chamber pop, but the remaining tracks are very different, but the collecting theme here is sailors' songs, which also is implied in the title. "Shallow Brown" is an a capella, or more correct: a sea shantie song, or: sailors' song (here) without music. "The Ellan Vannin Tragedy" is likewise a track with a clear sailor motif with scarce music accompanying, and the last track "There's a Storm a Comin' " is more in style with his normal production. The two shanties drag in the negative way, I think, and overall it's a bit too varied style-wise.
