The Great Distance
The Great Distance
© Copyright-Dan Biddle / Alex Jenkins
(634479127304)
Record Label: The Great Distance
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'A statue covers her eyes in sadness, or shame, on the album cover; inside, in a world of shadows and echoes, a duo from London creates haunting, slow-motion, guitar-and-piano-laden music about heartbreak, about hurt, about trying to find something or someone worth living for.' Erasingclouds.com
The Great Distance presents a beautiful, ambitious album of British Alt-country. Featuring the distinctive voice and song writing talent of Article Dan and the musical inspirations of Definitive Alex, The Great Distance takes its roots from influences such as Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Radiohead's OK Computer, and a touch of Tom Waits.
The band could talk forever about the album. Better you read what others, less biased, have said:
Reviews for The Great Distance debut album:
"...mood music for a summer's eve, sultry without trying to be sultry, moody without seeming conceited, laidback and beautiful without ever complicating things." The Electric Press
'Seamless in terms of consistency and quality, it's the type of album where different tunes jump out at you with different listens...' PopMatters
'A revelation [with] divine traces throughout...' Tasty Fanzine
'5. The Great Distance, "The Great Distance" (Swine Maid). Mixing the best of Wilco, Sigur Ros and Radiohead makes this one a keeper.' US Billboard: 2005 Year in Music (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/2005/top10/staff_3.jsp)
"Self-produced from start to finish, [The Great Distance] create an extraordinary album." Realmusicreview.com
The Great Distance are:
Article Dan - Vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, melodica (the spit-maker), dumbbells, shakers.
Definitive Alex - Lead guitars, rhythm guitars, piano, dumbbells, shakers, percussion, children's glock, flute-trumpet, programming, sampling, twiddling.
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Totally haunting and moving acoustic bliss.
author: Shark Trager
Stumbled across this CD and so glad I did. You can't ignore the fact that it's a melancholy piece but all the better for it. Only the amusingly clever Tom Waits pastiche/ tribute/homage Tom Waits for No Man strays from the consistency of the overall album but it works anyway. The whole thing reminds me a little of Ryan Adam's Love is Hell Album and stuff from Eels. Despite being down and melancholy, it's not depressing music, just thoughtful and inspiring. On their own each song stands out and it's difficult to name a favourite but I love Savings to Dollars which has a little haunting melodic hook that's stuck in my head and a brilliant ending. The album's lyrics are great - Kill all the writers as they rise - with plenty of one liner gems. From the more commercial sounding Easy River and Nobody Calls to the epic ballads with soundscapes like Wallowing in Your Footsteps, I'll be going back for more again and again.
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