It's In There Somewhere CD

Now relocated to the musical hotbed that is Manchester, David Thomas Broughton has seen it fit to root through his boxes of tapes and CDR's to come up with this retrospective of his life in a recording. "It's In There Somewhere" collects thirteen recordings from his dusty collection of recordings. Unusually though, instead of this being a throwaway collection of sketches, these intimate and sometimes haunting songs even transcend his debut, and contain a sincerity and honesty rarely heard on disc. These songs sound like they were never written for the ears of the masses, and embody everything that the modern 'nu-folk' scene purports to be. One part Devandra Banhart and one part Daniel Johnston, we have crumbling synthesized drum-machine ditties ('Circle Is Never Complete') set against gorgeous whispering avant-folk epics ('Gracefully Silent') yet never do the tracks grate or feel like they weren't meant to be heard together. This is like discovering a priceless artefact from the past, something once loved which can so easily be loved again - just listen to the pseudo-electro-folk beauty of "Ain't Got No Sole" for more than enough evidence of this. Broughton has created an album of utterly unique outsider folk-pop which is sure to catapult him into the eyes of the world's music press, but we all know that his music is more than that, more personal and more innocent than anyone could portray with mere words. Listen and be converted to the church of Broughton.