Wisdom of the weeks

Currituck Co. - Sleepwalks in the Garden of the Deadroom (2005) ****

Nominated by: Alex

Music club: MNAC

MNAC playlist addition:  Sleepwalking

Seems Currituck Co. (short for Currituck County) is an indie folk project started in 2000 by Kevin Barker. Sleepwalks... is his fourth album.

He had me onboard from the off. The acoustic guitars provide the accessibility for me to embrace this album, and the clean vocals allow me to hear the lyrics. Yay!!! I may be getting to an age when comparatively simple wooden music has more appeal than rawk guitars, drums and such.

Of late, I've been listening to a lot of quiet dream pop (Tom might like to try NZ's Yumi Zouma - I recommend their Yoncalla album), Donovan, Al Stewart, and Iron & Wine. Bon Iver's first album remains a go to, rather than his other albums.

There are some terrific tunes on Sleepwalks in the Garden of the Deadroom. I've picked out Sleepwalking as my favourite (the song superbly echoes the images on the cover, or the other way 'round), but each time I listen to it other songs nudge themselves forward for special mention (like Run Away From The Sun). Wisdom Of The Weeks is a glorious song!

It's albums like this that make we wish I'd learned to play the guitar. Thanks Alex - great selection! One to keep in mind for Lew's best of the year list.