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John Wolfington's self-titled album is the best debut I've heard in a very long time. In contrast with most other singer-songwriters Wolfington plays a wider spectrum than the usual "track six sounds like track four which sounds like track one, but track two stands out." Fortunately, Wolfington is not caught by this singer-songwriter disease: ten different tracks - ten strong tracks. Wolfington doesn't shun drum computers, vox, and female back-up, but the songs never become corny or kitsch. Wolfington songs bear influences of Sonic Youth, Three Fish, Cat Power, Chris Whitley's 90s work, and many others. A couple of songs are carried by almost innocent Eels-like arrangements. One of these is the excellent 'Coney Island', which blends an almost serene melody with fine lyrics and the right atmosphere - I can almost see Wolfington riding the F-train and taking the boardwalk: "I wanna go to Coney Island/Because I know the freaks will understand/Sonic Youth is their favourite band/And I wanna go to Coney island/And lose myself in all that sand/And is it the truth or is she lying?/The secret is always in your hand/ Hot dog - and I rode the cyclone/I watched the freak show and now I'm going home/And every time I think about this dream that I have/I wonder why it makes me feel so sad/ And she wants to know why I'm in the freak show."
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