George Thomas And The Owls - Concert For Two Bicycles

We stumbled upon George last summer in Manchester, where he was playing shambolic and strangely touching live sets,
claiming to be a woodcutter from the Peak District. Later, when the wind started picking up, we found this to be true. As for
The Owls, it seems they're a raggle taggle bunch consisting of whoever George picks up on his travels, generally playing
whatever instruments are at hand.  The recording of 'Concert for Two Bicycles' was split, we are told, equally between a garden
shed in the Peaks, and a flat beside the railway tracks in Manchester. The resulting sound is one of humble charm, with a rare
and at times almost unnerving closeness to the listener. Its an album that's full of warmth and an earthy humanity, where
songs about the pleasures of the local bakery sit happily alongside those about the pests and diseases of garden flowers. They
are songs that are dark like confectionery, yet hopeful like chemotherapy (he insisted we leave that in). George himself will
claim to be influenced by anything from Canadian hip hop to Welsh heavy metal, but to our ears the sound of this record lies
somewhere between the picturesque ramblings of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci or The Beta Band, and the twisted storytelling of
Smog or The Handsome Family. In truth though, comparisons mean little, since this is a unique set of songs which could not
have been written or recorded by anybody else. We hope you enjoy the album as much as we do!

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