Posts Tagged “James Yorkston”
This month James Yorkston releases ‘When The Haar Rolls In’, his follow-up to 2006′s sublime ‘The Year of the Leopard’. Whilst that album was beautifully produced by Rustin Man, this time Yorkston has taken the helm himself and the result is a rich and full sound – tempered, of course, with his usual wry lyricism. [...]
Podcast 6 – Fence Collective special (part one). 1. James Yorkston – Queen of Spain www.jamesyorkston.co.uk2. The Pictish Trail – I Don’t Know Where To Begin www.myspace.com/pictishtrail3. Rozi Plain – The Lang Toun (James Yorkston cover)4. David Thomas Broughton (James Yorkston cover) See www.myspace.com/jamesyorkstoncoversalbum for more info. See the September 2008 issue of The Skinny for my interviews with [...]
James Yorkston’s new album is, on first listen, a much more straightforward affair than its sublime predecessor, 2006′s The Year of The Leopard. But like the haar itself this is merely an illusion, because it’s full of rich instrumentation and quietly devastating lyrical turns – with flourishes that will appear over repeated listens and floor [...]
If you want an insight into James Yorkston’s new album The Year of the Leopard, it’s perhaps best to start with the title track. “The line ‘It won’t be so easy, this year of the leopard’ was partly inspired by a book called The Leopard by Guiseppe Di Lampedusa.” Yorkston explains. “The main character is [...]