Naevus - Relatively Close To The Sea (2008)

GENRE..... Folk
LABEL...... Hau Ruck!
MODE....... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE.. Nov-19-2008

For the sixth Naevus album, Relatively Close to the
Sea, Lloyd James (voice, acoustic guitar,
keyboards) and Joanne Owen (bass, accordion,
keyboards) joined by their regular drummer John
Murphy (Knifeladder, Shining Vril). The album also
features contributions from Greg Ferrari (Womb) on
electric guitar, Joanna Quail (SonVer) on cello,
Matt Howden (Sieben) on violin; and Arthur Shaw
(Cutty Sark) on keyboard. Dominic O'Connor
(eulogised in Silent Life's Dominic Song) is there
in spirit the album includes a cover version of
one of his compositions, previously unreleased in
any form. Many of the tracks here have already been
performed live in recent Naevus festival
appearances, notably Meat On Meat, which is close
in temperament to the preceding album Silent Life.
However, the remainder of the tracks on offer
branch out in a range of other directions; Dented
Mess harks back to the existential pop elements of
Truffles of Love; The German is a dalliance with
Schlager-esque murder balladry; while the title
track itself combines slide guitar and lo-fi synths
with the Naevus band sound. The centrepiece of the
album, and Naevus' greatest recorded work to date,
is the 18-minute Go Grow, takes the progressive
influences that have been present in Naevus since
the beginning (Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, etc.) and weds
them with soaring cello and John Cale-esque piano
pounding to produce a sublime epic. Relatively
Close to the Sea is packaged in a digipak with 12
page booklet including lyrics.

Tracklist:

1. Relatively Close To The Sea
2. Traffic Island
3. Meat On Meat
4. The German
5. Dented Mess
6. The Troubadour
7. Go Grow
8. Relatively Close To The Sea (Reprise)

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