- Benjamin Shaw - I Got the Pox, the Pox is what I Got
- "If you gave a young Johnny Cash a synthesiser, told Damien Rice a good joke, sat them a-top a downy hill with a few salad sandwiches, by the miracle of music, nine months later would arrive the immaculate conception of Benjamin Shaw." [Read More...]
- The Hillfields – Come Outside EP
- "The Come Outside EP is a mighty fine EP drawing from the bands (and mine!) favourite influences. Whether you like indiepop in general or music inspired by the likes of Flying Nun or Liverpool in the early 1980′s then this should be an essential purchase." [Read More...]
- Cold Lake Flight School: The Great Dry Lake [Album Review]
- "It makes you want to escape city life, be it Manhattan, Los Angeles, Seattle or even Portland. It has that urge to get out, to move to the country, to be an organic farmer and live off the land." [Read More...]
- Benjamin Shaw Assorted Reviews
- "I thought I might try and collect together some of the Pox reviews here in one place, just so they don't disappear into the Internether. So, here they be. Some are lovely, and some are not so, but all are a pleasant read. And I'm sure these aren't all there are, so I will no doubt add more in the future."
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- a Singer of Songs - Old Happiness
- "The singer of these songs easily recalls the melancholy style of late singers St Thomas or Vic Chesnutt." [Read More...]
- a Singer of Songs - Old Happiness
- "Anche Lieven Scheerlinck, songwriter belga di stanza a Barcellona, ha provato a fare un elenco di ricordi da cancellare." [Read More...]
- EP Review: Benjamin Shaw
- "In the simplest of words, ignoring all the expected critic-ness that is sometimes contained in these reviews, this is just a great debut that I am utterly happy to have stumbled upon." [Read More...]
- Song(s) of the Day from “a singer of songs”
- "The album is overflowing with ballads meant to be merely whispered to the one next to you – and we get the experience wrapped up in 13 tracks of digital storytelling" [Read More...]
- A Singer Of Songs offers lo-fi lullaby folk
- "lo-fi lullaby folk that falls on the ears as gently as snowflakes" [Read More...]
- 'Running of the Bulls' - Sun Cut Flat
- "The songwriting is stellar, the musicianship is beautiful, the vocals are spot on, and the recording in warm and clean- all of which was done in a sweltering attic with no air conditioning. " [Read More...]
- BENJAMIN SHAW - I GOT THE POX, THE POX IS WHAT I GOT
- "Benjamin Shaw is a one-man wall in a dark alleyway of sound, and I'll be looking out for him" [Read More...]
- God is in the TV
- "there’s enough appeal in Benjamin Shaw’s DIY debut to suggest that he might be a ‘name’ for 2010" [Read More...]
- Collateral Soundtrack - Long Play EP
- "If you need to have positive dreams in your dailly life, please download it." [Read More...]
- The Hillfields - It'll Never be the Same Again
- "'i've listened to this record about 15 times now, and I'm still getting something different out of it each time" [Read More...]
- Long Play, Collateral Soundtrack
- "Five tracks of temporal freedom, welcoming moods, waves and beautiful aesthetics for which he mischievously attempts to hook into music’s sunny delight." [Read More...]
- The Hillfields – It’ll never be the same again
- “'It’ll never be the same again' has songs that you will remember after one listen. [Read More...]
- The Hillfields – Oddbox Review
- "even after a few listens I find myself humming along with songs that I never knew the titles to" [Read More...]
- Quick Hitters:: Dress Up Like a Hooker, I'll Be Charlie Sheen
- "Despite the lo-fi recording techniques – and avoiding any of the inane posturing about the harmful rise of lo-fi electronic jams that got the interweb all in a tizzy – this record is surprisingly light and melodic" [Read More...]
- EP Roundup – Biggles Flies Again
- "before you go thinking this is everything-but-the-kicthen-sink-twee think again" [Read More...]
- Biggles Flys Again - Farewell
- "It’s easy to see how ‘Farewell’ could catch the attention.." [Read More...]
- Review -- WELCOME TO REYKJAVIK -- Music For Sleeping Lovers ... And For Those Who Wake Up Alone
- "the CD also shows that musician Sean Craib-Petkau is a fine modern day poet" [Read More...]
- Benjamin Shaw’s “I Got the Pox, The Pox is what I Got”
- "He’s a wall-of-sound. He’s a genius. He’s produced one of the best debuts I’ve ever come across." [Read More...]
- Happiest Lion, Homemade Review
- "Grab it, Get it, Download it, it’s awesome." [Read More...]
