America and Europe, Slurring, Girls, Noise and Melody, Scandanavia, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pop, The Magnetic Fields, The Radio Dept, Our Friends!, The National singer- his lyrics and vocals=amazing. Feist, Norwegian Wood. Sufjan bloody Stevens, Over-analysing everything, Die Hard1,2&3, Djing badly, Montreal, Rambo 2, Michel Gondry films, Gael Garcia Bernal, Weezer, Harry Potter, The Unicorns/Islands, Skipping, Dodgeball (what a film!), A sense of hope is important, 300, Cardigans, Resident Evil 4, The Legend of Zelda:The Windwaker, Anna Paquin, Miranda July, Michael Bay, The Squid and the Whale, 23, Charity shops (especially Marthas), Lionhead Studios & Peter Molyneux, Hardcore dance music, Belle & Sebastian, Stephane Grappelli, Earl Grey, Mean Girls, Andrew Bird, Final Fantasy, the String Quartet in Titanic, Death Cab For Cutie, Floral patterns, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3, Soul Calibur 2, Dogville, The Mountain Goats, Mates of State, TALONS.
Sounds Like
"Instantly make a mockery of their peers' London press-powered Pull In Emergency/Bombay Bicycle Club teen scene's slavish post-Liberstrokesparty sound by claiming influence from Neutral Milk Hotel, The Magnetic Fields and Final Fantasy, and having the ability to back it up." sweepingthenation.blogspot.com
"Vibrant and crisp, these picture book treasures nibble and tease playfully sometimes melancholic and thoughtfully pretty." losingtoday.com
"An ambitiousness to the songwriting that outweighs the efforts of most of their peers and even those far older.epic Pentangle style Brit folk adventurishness that makes it stand out and seem more adult than you'd initially expect." jamiesrunoutgroove.blogspot.com
"Gossamer Albatross, has so far produced is of the charming, rustic, lo-fi, uplifting, sobering, endearingly sloppy, dictaphone-recorded, infinitely promising, back-to-basics, subtly arranged, delicately performed species. This is the very species that fluttters shakily, unsure of itself, before steadying and diving straight for your soft spot. It's irresistible." disgustingblemish.blogspot.com
"Delicious instrumentation and arrangement. The devil really in the details on this EP, and repeat listening brings forth more and more treasures for the attentive listener. All four songs are literally jam packed with those moments that you get in songs where something just clicks and feels absolutely right and perfect in that moment." godisinthetvzine.co.uk
"Rich sounding and quite wonderful, folk-pop." Keepitfast.com
"Cracking lyrics and a swooning voice that will make you double take when you find out his age, Gossamer Albatross will soon be folk-pop hero, one to look out for in the future for sure..." Half a Handshake
"His voice is wonderful, rising and falling like in violin-esque way over his percussive, highly rhythmical guitar playing. It's almost baroque, swooning with drama" fieldrecords.blogspot.com
"Folk with hearts, who play for the love of playing, with everybody welcome. They're led by a boy called Lewis, who says he's eighteen, but his songs are worldly enough to declare he might secretly be at least thirty-one. It's magical." bloodshedinthewoodshed.blogspot.com
" Strong and poignant, his breezy vocals flutter and fly across delicately delivered melodies." no-ordinarymusic.com
"The strings could easily have been gathered between the fingers of Owen Pallet, the words delivered from the mouth of Zach Condon. Something really special." cutandpasteandtwist.com
"Gossamer Albatross perhaps has less to do with youth than unbridled fearlessness." Toronto Star
Gossamer Albatross are four teenagers from Hereford. 3 of them are classically trained. The other one isn't. That one is a big fan of Coco Pops. The other 3 look on in despair. Jeremy Warmsley is producing our next single/EP.
We like to play gigs, so if you want us to play at your gig/house/garden/church/library/club night please do get in touch. Either send enquiries to the myspace or to gossameralbatross1@googlemail.com
You can also buy our tracks off itunes by following this lovely little link.
Ello Ello guys! How is it all going? Any good news? It's been a long time. Hope you are all doing well. We should put up a show in the yorkshire dales, upon the hills and invite lots of peeps in tweed. Josh
How are you guys? We just posted a couple of new awesome songs - would be great if you wanted to check them out! Hope everything's magical on your end, it is here.
cheers for the pointer.. i'll drop him a message now. thanks for the chat, and the advice... hopefully see you around! If you need any help with anything Cardiff-based, consider me there.
Wow.. that was a surprisingly swift retort! Cheers for at least trying to give the music a listen, haha! Don't suppose you know of any acoustic nights looking for people in Hereford around August-time do you? ....Worth a shot, I suppose.
Nice hearing from you anyway, consider myself humbled.
Been a huge fan of yours for ages, and I thought I'd keep you in my top-friends for easy accessibility when i need to listen to your stuff - therefore you're one of the first to get this annoying message, haha. But anyway, I thought I'd give everyone a shameless heads-up to check out a new re-recording of an older song on my page.
It would mean a great deal if any of you guys gave it a listen and let me know what you thought. Cheers
The first Sproatly Smith album (RW 76) was released yesterday. The Yew And The Hare can be purchased for £5.00 from REVERBWORSHIP.COM Limited edition of only 50 I hope you enjoy xx
