Vinegar and Brown Paper

Description

Vinegar And Brown Paper is the sophomore album by the British Celtic folk-rock band Eden Burning, independently released in the UK on FFG in 1992, and on Storyville Records in the US, a division of R.E.X. Music. The album, a follow-up to the 1990 debut album Thin Walls and the EP that followed, Much More than Near (both were a cassette-only releases), was produced by David Pickering Pick and Eden Burning.

Yep, the one we’ve all been waiting for and it’s the hot-tie everyone who’s caught their sizzling live sets predicted. All the elements are there, those haunting Paul Northup vocals with their laconic understatement; delightfully tight folk-rock picking (Neill Forrest’s mandolin is as ever superb) and songs which are avowedly poetic (“I try to capture colour with my words,” Paul sings). If there is a minor quibble it’s that there isn’t a full-tilt stomper to really bring the band’s folk dance and indie rock elements into focus and with all the mid-tempo and slowish songs, those yet to be won over to Eden Burning’s growing legion of fans might wonder what all the fuss is about. Yet a few listens will show them. With three songwriters in the band turning in such excellent material and with such inventive playing (catch Charlotte’s flute on the opener or the dazzling flying digits of Neill Forrest on the romping instrumental «The Reel Of Pickering Pick») one keeps returning to this album. Currently my favourites are the evocative «Different Drum» and «Feel The Rain» which begins at an easy-going lollop but doubles its tempo for a wild climax. But I’m still listening. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, July 1992]

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CD tracklist:

01. My Senses Fly – 4:36
02. If I Go Up – 4:01
03. The Reel Of Pickering Pick – 1:38
04. Speak Easy – 4:22
05. Different Drum – 4:54
06. The Weaver – 1:44
07. Feel The Rain – 5:16
08. Jubilee – 4:13
09. Simply Breathe – 3:48
10. Hold The Dream – 3:31
11. A Little More – 4:05
12. Untitled Instrumental – 1:30

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Storyville Records.

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