Reviewed by Steve Best

Love the quote from Cheltenham youth worker Ewan on the sleeve: "If it sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom with dodgy equipment, that's because it was..." Full marks for honesty then from a veritable one-man-band and production company, here following up this year's 'Songs About Pharisees EP'. So what sounds emerge from the Jones bedroom then? In a word, strange. This certainly isn't your average bedroom recording, although it's no Daniel Bedingfield either. It does have an authentic low-fi sound and would fall neatly into the category marked "moody" - for you can't exactly imagine Ewan's youth group disco-ing down to this of a Friday night. There are some really nice moments, although the "low-fi-ness" can get a bit annoying in places and the lyrics flirt dangerously with cliche more than once; "You are like a train and I am the track" (from "Why I'm A Hypocrite") and can also sound a tad pretentious, "...all your memories are sepia..." (from "Wrapped"). In general though, this is quite original.

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