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Single Reviews
Single Review: James Yorkston – Tortoise Regrets Hare (Domino)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 8 December 2008
Having emerged from the creative hub of the Fence Collective, James Yorkston has an impressive back catalogue of fragile folk with a reassuring twinge of Scottish self-deprecation. ‘Tortoise Regrets Hare’ is the first single taken from his fifth album, backed up by an expansive British tour. This time round he’s built himself a rock-solid foundation of material. Like it was spindle woven by some heavenly entity, the delicate instrumentation on ‘Tortoise Regrets Hare’ whispers of the rolling landscape on an evening in Fife. Then there’s Yorkston himself, the king of the understatement. Achieving the emotional content for which most artists would have to strain their vocal cords as tight as a Scot the day before pay-day in just a few minor inflections, his voice is captivating and enveloping. By the time it’s over, you’re wrapped in a rose-tinted haze, and that romantic inside you that you thought had died with the weather is roused and ready. GB
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