I think it's because I have a seemingly permanent headache at the moment (and don't come to the conclusion that it's because I've been attending too many drunken Christmas parties, because that would be unfair, and wrong) that I am tending to listen to quiet, understated, folky music most of the time. Well, that and all my Christmas compilation CDs. It is the season, after all. Anyway, Peter And The Wolf are the purveyors of more of that understated folk pop stuff, beautifully melodic and calming. Now's a good time to make friends with these chaps because they've just released a six track EP, 'Storyteller' via Skinny Dog, the label set up by Elbow's Guy Garvey and I Am Kloot's Peter Jobson, and it's had a great critical response. I haven't heard the full EP (I'd like to) but you can preview three of the tracks from it here on the MySpace page. So why don't you?
http://www.myspace.com/peterandthewolfmusic