Dickson, Gareth / Collected Recordings
Album: Collected Recordings   Collection:General
Artist:Dickson, Gareth   Added:Jan 2014
Label:12k  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-01-31 Pull Date: 2014-04-04
Week Ending: Mar 30 Mar 23 Mar 16 Mar 9 Feb 23 Feb 16
Airplays: 2 1 1 3 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 29, 2014: Music Casserole
If I
4. Mar 13, 2014: The Sunset Life
Ping Pong
2. Mar 23, 2014: Street Hassle
Fifth (The Impossibility Of Death...)
5. Mar 06, 2014: The Sunset Life
Fifth (The Impossibility Of Death...)
3. Mar 20, 2014: The Sunset Life
Technology
6. Mar 06, 2014: Stringless Balloon
Technology

Album Review
Adam
Reviewed 2014-01-31
Dreamlike, blissful, entrancing fingerpicked guitar. Overwhelmingly atmospheric and pleasant daydreaming. Nick Drake comparison is too simplistic - Dickson's music is slower, more spacious, and unconscious. Re-release of his first full length (originally on Drifting Falling, now out of print), with the addition of previously unreleased tracks, “Ping Pong” and “Cara.” RIYL: Nick Drake, Burt Jansch, Grouper, Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick. Heavily atmospheric, I'd recommend throwing a few on continuous, but if you want to play the hits, I've noted them below. Many tracks sound similar. Unhurried and gorgeous.

*1. ambient blanket wash and delicate drone. grouper. 5:18
*2. gutting, otherworldly, slow, naked love song. 4:26
3. 2:54
4. collapse into lots of space, pleasant 5:55
5. More "pop" in structure, impressive guitar work. 4:23
*6. Lengthy, exploratory variation on a harmonic mood. 5:04
7. Rhythmic, wordless tides. 3:22
8. 4:04
9. 4:35
*10. harp-like, mesmerizing plucking surge. 6:27
11. Some digital static thrown in. 5:11
12. 4:38
13. 2:41

Track Listing
1. Fifth (The Impossibility Of Death...)   7. Agoa
2. If I   8. As You Lie
3. Song, Women And Wine   9. Climbing
4. Trip In A Blank   10. Technology
5. Two Trains   11. Like A Clock
6. Harmonics   12. Ping Pong
  13. Corn