The Local Presents: Left With Pictures, Stairs to Korea - Part 1
Delighted to present our favourite chamber-pop band from London. We've known these guys for some time since way back in the day when they won Folk Idol, and since then they've moved rather smartly around the new folky pop sound with a gravitas and poise rarely seen among their contemporaries. They release stuff sporadically to high critical praise, and this year are doing a new song and video a month to kind of show off quite how clever and productive they can be. A real favourite of ours.
Left With Pictures
"Beyond brilliant...a band I fell in love with from the first myspace listen" Mike Diver - Drowned in Sound
"The closest imaginable band to truly embodying that overused 'ensemble' tag convincingly... they have legs enough for walking, swooning, harmonizing and lilting with the very best of their contemporaries." Drowned in Sound
"A band that are currently making many a staff writer weak at the knees; Left With Pictures new EP Secretly is an enchanting stroke of chamber pop genius." Rich Thane - Line of Best Fit
"Beyond brilliant...a band I fell in love with from the first myspace listen" Mike Diver - Drowned in Sound
"The closest imaginable band to truly embodying that overused 'ensemble' tag convincingly... they have legs enough for walking, swooning, harmonizing and lilting with the very best of their contemporaries." Drowned in Sound
"A band that are currently making many a staff writer weak at the knees; Left With Pictures new EP Secretly is an enchanting stroke of chamber pop genius." Rich Thane - Line of Best Fit
Stairs to Korea
From North London via Reykjavik, Will Vaughan makes budget anthems through slipshod use of modern technology and a dinky white guitar. It's wrongpop Heaven - right here on Earth.
"Equipped with a tender voice and pure talent in creating so may sounds with only pair of hands, this man is the latest in our eternal hunt for shonky heartfelt interesting pop music." - Muso's Guide
From North London via Reykjavik, Will Vaughan makes budget anthems through slipshod use of modern technology and a dinky white guitar. It's wrongpop Heaven - right here on Earth.
"Equipped with a tender voice and pure talent in creating so may sounds with only pair of hands, this man is the latest in our eternal hunt for shonky heartfelt interesting pop music." - Muso's Guide
