Table - Songs You Can Sing

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4...according to our Brian on Fri 15 Jan, 2010.

I used to like one of those scuzzy Chicago math rock groups years ago called Table. I thought "What a shite name for a band, they must be good", which unfortunately doesn't apply to the clothing company "Bench" whose range of designer togs are obviously stitched by 6 week old blind kittens with frostbite on their paws. Nattering aside, there's now a Manc crew with that same lumpen name who specialise in a special brand of warm melancholia, weighing in somewhere between Earlies, Elbow & Tunng with a teensy dash of Coldplay. They've a very familiar & comforting demeanor despite all the waves of sadness wafting from the needle. People like being sad don't they though. Especially in this awful weather, I like to go home and put on my best Leonard Cohen mask and slow dance with the shadows in my dimly lit room. A 7", 'Songs You Can Sing' is ltd, as always.

Manchester-based six-piece Table are led by songwriter David O’Dowda, who combs together different strands of modern folk music to create something new and wonderful on this, their first seven-inch titled ‘Songs You Can Sing’. The two tracks on this single are sumptuous delights, airy and ornate while being oddly familiar. Marshalled by David, Table waltz through quietly elegant folk-pop with minimal guitar, stately piano and low-key vocals on what sounds like an endearingly sweet single, despite the deceptively barbed tale woven throughout.If ‘Songs You Can Sing’ is beguilingly understated, then ‘ Most’ is multi-layered and bursting with ideas where electronic and organic sounds collide. It’s a many hued delight which pulls together disparate elements and twists them into a myriad shapes, blurring excitedly before sweeping to a beautiful climax. Music that reaches into you and pulls out your soul, personal and frankly as dangerous as it is fragile. Imagine East River Pipe covering a Richard Hawley penned lullaby and you’ll have a good idea of what to expect.

Edition of 500 7” singles in hand finished sleeves and download.

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