Description:	CD on Carpark
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Singer-Songwriter
	Label:	Carpark
	Price:	£13.19
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...according to our Brett on 20 August 2008.

Why Is Bear Billowing? is the new thing from a man whose name is Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, which leads me to hope that his dad's called Greater Gonzalez Alvarez. This is folky stuff out on Car Park, just voice and guitar that's very earnest-sounding and frequently very pretty. His voice is often reminiscent of Nick Drake, something we seem to say every week about some folk bloke or other.. Get some new influences, folk blokes! But he does it far better than most, to be fair. Ant reckons he sounds quite like Adrian Crowley, not heard him so I'll take his word for it..

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What their label says...

Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1983. He is a member of the venerable Wham City collective in Baltimore with Dan Deacon and others and will participate in the Wham City Round Robin tour this fall featuring Dan Deacon, - Ponytail, Adventure and others.
Lesser is also an accomplished visual artist whose work can be seen at www.thinplastic.com
Lesser’s wide-ranging musical projects also include playing guitar in the drone-tinged country-folk group The Tall Grass as well as an electronic side project called The Ruby Stallion Ensemble.
It should therefore come as no surprise that his first solo record is just Lesser and his acoustic guitar crafting some of the prettiest folk tunes you’ll hear this year or any.
A testament to the beauty of simplifying your life, Lesser delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, John Fahey, Donovan and contemporary artists like Adem.

Tracklisting: 1. A Magic 2. All With Golden Locks 3. Pinecone Eyes 4. A Twist In The Sky 5. Narwhal Horn 6. Little Island 7. Love For Longer 8. The Letter B 9. Build A Tiny Hill 10. The Owl and The Pussycat 11. Mostly A Friend