"They're a multi-legged, multi-instrumented scramble up the precipitous slopes of 20-something hearts, driven along by melodies that'd tan your backside if you dared to flag. There's nothing to buck trends here. We have acoustic guitars, a banjo, a glockenspiel, a melodica. Someone is making interesting electronic sounds and there is percussion. I think. But reducing bands to their constituent parts is like sniffily suggesting Monet and Picasso are similar because their palette all comes from blends of the primary colours. It's how you arrange these sounds and the greater picture to which they are constituent parts that determines the quality The sing-a-long melodies sweeten lyrics about frustration, death and loneliness - and I know that this apparent contradiction has been the coal that fired the whole rock n roll revolution, and that that seam appears to be running low, but when it's done with this amount of truth, and a welcome lack of irony, it's enrapturing."
Adam Walton - BBC radio wales website
released December 9, 2010
all songs written and performed by shy and the fight
Produced by Gary Lloyd
Mixed and Mastered by Gary Lloyd
Artwork- Sing J. Lee
Shy and the Fight are:
Thomas Hyndman- guitar, vocals, melodica
Chris Done- bass, vocals
Michael Deponio- banjo, vocals
Carrie Anderson - Violin, Tuned percusion, vocals
Jackson Almond - lap steel
Tom Wootton- drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Meg Myatt- vocals
David Greenald- accordion
Simon Hunter- pedal steel
Gary Lloyd- clarinet, percussion, misc
chemistry lane- gang vocals
special thanks to City Bar Nu Wah.
www.shyandthefight.co.uk
shyandthefightmusic@hotmail.co.uk