The Rural Tradition LP, by The Rural Tradition

The Rural Tradition LP

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1.	The Rural Tradition - Servants Tempations (free) 00:53	download
2.	The Rural Tradition - A Refuge Of Lies (free) 02:55	download
3.	The Rural Tradition - A Difficult Problem Solved (free) 01:23	download
4.	The Rural Tradition - I Thought I Was Intended For The Country Life (free) 02:31	download
5.	The Rural Tradition - Don't Go Too Deeply Into Motives (free) 01:26	download
6.	The Rural Tradition - Dead Drunk (free) 04:11	download
7.	The Rural Tradition - The Nightingale Fund (free) 01:01	download
8.	The Rural Tradition - A Broken Stalk Of Dark Blue Hyacinth (free) 02:57	download
9.	The Rural Tradition - The Fashionable Lounger (free) 00:56	download
10.	The Rural Tradition - The French Boy Who Became Famous (free) 00:40	download
11.	The Rural Tradition - How We Went Up (free) 02:01	download
12.	The Rural Tradition - They All Loved The Place And I Loved Them All (free) 01:01	download
13.	The Rural Tradition - The Reproach In His Tone Had Gone To Her Heart (free) 02:37	download
14.	Opened With Trembling Fingers (free) 00:48	download
15.	A Love Of Indolence, Succumbing To Sloth (free) 02:03	download
16.	Their Hearts Were Warm, Though Their Manners Were Rough (free) 03:40	download

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"As if the title of this album wasn't self-deprecating enough, Julian Poidevin, the sole member of The Rural Tradition, even goes so far as to declare its release last year as "spectacularly unsuccessful" on his MySpace page. Well, the sales figures might not have been through the roof, but in creative terms this really is quite a find. Sounding remarkably like a down-and-out Nick Drake, Poidevin strings together an album's worth of beautifully dilapidated acoustic narratives, intercut with detuned instrumental interludes spun on xylophone chimes, accordion, melodica and of course, acoustic guitar. The scrappiness and sheer rundown charm of it all is matched perfectly by the sleeve imagery, which casts rustic, quintessentially English imagery in a world of sepia-tinted decline. It's the beleaguered, downtrodden quality to Poidevin's songwriting that makes it so appealing: and on timid fingerpicked tracts like 'I Thought I Was Intended For A Country Life' or the daydreaming, Syd Barrett-like 'The Nightingale Fund', The Rural Tradition's finest qualities - in particular, that rough-edged warmth in his voice - really shine through the modest, unnecessarily humble presentation. An absolutely gorgeous album - massive recommendation." - Boomkat 2008

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released June 6, 2007

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