State River Widening – Cottonhead

This Album Is Sublimely Picturesque. Fans of anything from Nick Drake to Cluster via Boards Of Canada, Four Tet and Rachelís will find treasures aplenty here. Completely free of rock clichÈ, over-familiar digital gestures or dreary avant-garde naval-gazing, whether it be the delicate violin and guitar traceries of ìTouchedî, ìCottonwoodísî spiraling chordal cascades, ìDesertesqueísî marimba shimmers or the cinematic sweep of ìKnifegrinderís Songî (a track partly recorded in a street in Valencia, Spain), this is an album which simply refutes easy pigeonholing.