Butcher The Bar - Sleep At Your Own Speed

Manchester based artist , debut release for MORR.  'Sleep At Your Own Speed' sounds a little like Elliot Smith, the chords’ persuasive power, the
immediacy of the softly spoken words. The album is a coming-of-age novel consisting of thirteen short stories. “Getaway”, for instance, this
declaration of woes to a city that used to be home once – “It used to be a good place”. Or “Ball Point Skin Notes”, this weightless forlornness of
youth. “Leave Town” finally is that reduced and at the same time as exuberant as a pop song can be. An acoustic guitar, a banjo, a warm, direct
voice. “I leave town tonight, if only western civilisation feels alright.” Melancholy, deceleration and reduction are Joel Nicholson’s musical topics. Folk
and postfolk, old and new heroes (Nick Drake, Paul Simon but also Sufjan Stevens), searching, finding and letting go.

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