INTRODUCING #1 ACRES ACRES
October 29, 2009,
Written by The 405
The awesome Luke Leighfield discusses Jeremy Warmsley's latest band.
Acres, Acres, a new London-based band featuring singer-songwriter Jeremy Warmsley, are an interesting proposition. Their sort-of single 'Diamond From Coal' manages to start out as Brian Wilson's lovechild with some ethereal vocals, which then leads into a dirty, dirty riff before a more standard Warmsley-esque verse.
The rest of Acres, Acres help out with some lovely ooh's in the chorus that recall Blur in their Britpop prime. Meanwhile 'I Don't Know' smacks of Weezer's green album summer cheeriness, 'Come On, Wheels' exercises Warmsley's beautifully fragile voice in an American travelling anthem straight from the seventies, and 'Hopeless' is a beautiful, yearning number full of tasty guitar licks and gorgeous keyboard sounds. Lovely stuff.
Download 'Diamonds From Rough' free from here!
Listen to more from Acres, Acres at http://myspace.com/acresacres
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Jake - 10/03/10
The link is available by clicking on my name for this comment. Not overly happy with the sub-editing, just to cover my own back... :P [view article]
danny - 10/03/10
Yo Jake, where your review at, i'm curious! I think for me what made it stretch to 9/10 was teh fact it's really accessible and just occupies it's own little niche so well right now, I really can't think of a band with another recent release that I could compare them adequately to. Anyway, glad you liked it! [view article]
Rob - 10/03/10
I love how everyone always forgets that this isn't the full lineup by a long shot and a good chunk of the best bands aren't usually announced straight away. [view article]
Jake - 10/03/10
All three are worth a listen to be fair. I wouldn't have stretched quite as far as 9/10 (in fact, I didn't when I reviewed it elsewhere), but it is very good. Dusty Fruit is probably my favourite track (the early version of it, "Don't Trust the Dusty Fruit", is also very good!). [view article]
danny - 10/03/10
Jake, I know what you mean, but if i'd have admitted that it wouldn't have fitted my whole 'difficult second album' bit now would it? ;) [view article]