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Jacob Golden - Out Come The Wolves (Echo)
UK release date: 3 March 2008
Jacob Golden - Out Come The Wolves

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Californian singer/songwriter Jacob Golden's key word is intimacy. He recently orchestrated a tour of "living room shows" to less than forty people via MySpace. It makes sense - his quiet, but emotional songs certainly crave a level of aural one-on-one empathy. According to him: "a good record is a document of an experience, of people playing and listening in a room".

Out Come The Wolves is a protest song much akin to a Simon and Garfunkelesque rendering of The Stranglers' No More Heroes, while 'b-side' Zero Integrity is an apologetic song craving forgiveness for an unknown love.

But whilst Golden is plainly talented and seems to have the right approach to complement his music there's a definite sense that we've been here many times before, and perhaps this is a bit too low key to make enough of an impression. He's plainly onto something, but at the moment this sounds much like any other Elliot Smith/Damien Rice style act when it should be standing out from the crowd.


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