Andrew Morgan - Please Kid, Remember

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 16 Jul, 2009.

Andrew Morgan has a 2CD album called 'Please Kid Remember' out on Broken Horse and it's an epic 17 tracks of majestic chamber pop played on 12 string, piano, harpsichord, harp and harmonium. So loads of posh instruments. This strikes me as being extremely serious music although you'd never guess by looking at the picture of him sporting a fine quality moustache. Doesn't he look smart in his shirt andt ie. I'd be so proud if that was my son looking smart up there, not like those scruffy denim jackets and leather trouser wearing scruffs. He's been rolling with Elliot Smith I'm told.

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The last time you may have heard from Andrew Morgan was way back in 2004. Broken Horse released his debut album "Misadventures in Radiology" which had been recorded in part with free studio time donated by Elliott Smith in his Los Angeles New Monkey studio.

Please Kid, Remember picks up where dreaming debut Misadventures in Radiology leaves off. The second installment in the Kansas City-born songwriter’s "Exile Trilogy," "Andrew Morgan" evokes cornerstone chamber pop albums like The Zombies’ Odessey & Oracle and Badly Drawn Boy’s The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, yet bears a scope of arrangement and diversity of instrumentation all its own.

Compared to it’s predecessor, Please Kid, Remember is shorter, faster, and poppier. Waltzes still predominate, but are brisk & stately rather than swooning & syncopated. With the exception of one track, Misadventures..utilizes
exclusively acoustic instruments: 12-string acoustic guitar, upright bass, grand piano, harpsichord, strings, sleighbells, French Horn, harp, timpani, glockenspiel, and Elliott Smith’s beloved harmonium.

Tracklist:
- DISC 1: Please Kid, Remember 01. Leaves 02. Please Kid, Remember 03. Snow 04. Turn Your Collar to the Cold 05. Victory in Passing 06. As Long As We’re Together 07. Moscow 08. First Snow of the Year 09. Please Kid, Remember (II) 10. Five Paintings 11. Daybreak, Broad St. 12. A Gesture of Love 13. Mine and Mine Alone 14. For a Little While 15. Three Months in Cook County 16. Please Kid, Remember (III) 17. Leaves (II)
- DISC 2: Victory in Passing 01. Victory in Passing 02. A Simple Plan 03. A Unified Theory 04. Biology 05. A Little Discipline 06. Somerset Place 07. We Almost Made It 08. First Light, Stoneback Drive

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