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Colin Macleod is a singer song-writer from the Isle
Of Lewis and he has formed his own one man band
called The Boy who Trapped The Sun and is due to
release his new EP ‘Home’ on the 1st
March through Chess Club/Geffen.
To coincide with the name of the EP ‘Home’
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun split a six-night
residency between Glasgow’s Kling Tut’s
and London’s The Elgin, the EP was co-produced
by Macleod himself in London, following early
snowy sessions in Stornoway involving a computer
wired to a car engine, which seems like a very
interesting story if you ask me
‘Home’ is a very strange record that
needs a lot of time and patience to fully take
it, the EP is very downbeat, slightly eerie and
sleepy sounding and quite depressing in more of
a Coldplay way than Radiohead.
Each of the 5 songs on the EP feature the same
style of depressing soundscapes and deep, dark
vocals, you will either like or dislike the vocals
of Colin Macleod, and I have to put myself in
the hate category as I fully can’t get on
with many of the tracks on this EP, ‘Home’
is all one tone and downright boring, ‘In
The Dark’ is very slow paced and boring
with not much happening throughout apart from
Macleod singing how he is frightened of the dark,
‘The Fox’ is slightly uplifting with
some good jumpy instrumental work on offer the
vocals are as dark sounding as ever but in place
they become more upbeat but still lacks creating
a smile on my face.
‘Lying To Get On your Good Side’,
has real loud clear strong vocals with Colin Macleod
singing “I’m lying to get on your
good side, lying to get on your good side, lying
to get on your good side”, vocally the song
is quite soothing and also quite spooky sounding
as the vocals come across that big and strong
compared to the minimal soundscapes running throughout
the track.
And ‘Change The Clocks’ the track
which closes the EP, has instrumental work which
reminds me of the film The Snowman now I’m
not sure if I am going crazy thinking that before
there is 6 inches of snow outside or if it actually
does remind me of it, I’m sure it does as
it’s quite a beautiful wintery sound that
it kicks off, the vocals are once again hard to
get to grips with but once Colin get’s going
with the uplifting chorus things start to sit
in place and ‘Change The Clocks’ goes
on to be the plus side of the EP.
Maybe listening to The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
in the peak of a snowy winter is not the best
of ideas, or maybe The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
really is that depressing, there are a few good
moments on the EP coming in towards the end of
the EP, but just don’t expect The Boy Who
Trapped The Sun to become your new favourite artist
and also don’t expect to hear something
new and original as none of that can be found
here, but do yourself a favour and give ‘Home’
a listen and make up your own opinion on the EP
and The Boy Who Trapped The Sun as an artist.
2/5
Review by Trigger |
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1.
Home
2. In The Dark
3. The Fox
4. Lying To Get On Your Good Side
5. Change The Clocks |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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