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Published date24 February 2023
Publication titleExpress, The/The Express on Sunday
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DAVID BREWIS: The Soft Struggles???? (Daylight Saving) Along with older brother Peter, David Brewis has fronted art-rock band Field Music for eight albums, while also delivering his own funkier vibe on three LPs as School Of Language. However this is his first album under his own name, and it takes a substantially different path. The songs here have strings, brass and woodwind at their back, and those assisting Brewis were invited to improvise in the studio to create a more spontaneous sound. There's a warmth and a personal touch to jazz-like songs like Surface Noise, Keeping Up With Jessica and The King Of Growing Up.

GRACIE ABRAMS: Good Riddance ????...

(Polydor) Another young singersongwriter set to blitz the world in an Olivia Rodrigo style as she rails against a messy break-up. 23-year-old Gracie is the daughter of Star Trek and Star Wars director JJ Abrams, and she's joining hero Taylor Swift as support on her US tour - but she's earned every bit of her fledgling success. Like Swift, she got The National's Aaron Dessner to produce her first LP, and songs like Difficult and Where Do We Go Now? show a sharp way with a lyric.

DOUGIE POOLE: The Rainbow Wheel Of Death ??? (Wharf Cat) Having had to work as a computer programmer when the pandemic halted his touring schedule, Poole's third album is named after the colourful pinwheel at the centre of the screen when an

Apple iMac decides to stall (we call it the Beachball of Doom). There's a playful country-rock twang to these songs with a melancholy hint of Jack Johnson, and apparently he was once hailed as " the patron saint of millennial malaise". Best moments are Nothing On This Earth Can Make Me Smile and Must Be In Here Somewhere, where he searches in vain for a lost e-mail.

OKONSKI: Magnolia??? (Colemine) Steve Okonski earns his living as keyboards player for soul band Durand Jones & The Indications, while originally training as a classical pianist. But this short album of instrumentals comes from sessions recorded between 2020 and 2021, where he roped in fellow Indications members Michael Isvara Montgomery on bass and Aaron Frazer on drums. We get six reflective, late-night jazz pieces, the best of which are opener Runner Up and the moody...

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