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TEDDY THOMPSON | Separate Ways
Son of British folk-rock icons Richard and Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson's first album on the Verve Forecast label, Separate Ways delivers decisively on the promise of Thompson's much-acclaimed self-titled debut effort, revealing the charismatic young artist to be a deeply expressive singer and an incisive guitarist, as well as a songwriter of uncommon eloquence and craft.
Separate Ways' 12 original compositions merge an irresistibly engaging melodic sensibility with a brooding, melancholy lyrical insight that belies the London-born, New York-based Thompson's youth. On such compelling numbers as "Shine So Bright," "I Should Get Up," "Sorry to See Me Go," "No Way to Be" and the title track, Thompson conveys a vivid range of emotions, merging emotional gravity and barbed humour. The artist's soul-searching lyrics are brilliantly served by effortlessly organic arrangements, which balance acoustic intimacy and electric energy with uncommon ease.
Album features guest appearances from Martha and Rufus Wainright along with Richard and Linda Thompson.
Teddy Thompson will already be familiar to may from his tracks appearing on the soundtrack to 'Brokeback Mountain"
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