Conil
“Strange Part Of The Country” is the new single by Conil, a man whose glass gargling vocal chords scrape over the acoustic melody that his finger plucking antics have already established for us. A frame work of subtlety, marinated over the elegant, twenty a day vocals of this leather clad Damien Rice.
The single is actually rather eerie. The beating of a hollow sounding percussion section elopes drama into this gritty folk ballad of sand paper rough vocal projection. The first single by this London urchin can easily be seen scraping the under current of Tom Waits with its dingy and dark simplicity and clearly established cellar dwelling wisdom.
Shadow inhabited corners where the echoes of Buckley and Drake once graced could soon be seen fluttering with the likes of Conil.