Alasdair Roberts

Drag City

Quite different to A Wonder Working Stone and Spoils, the ten songs here are ‘sparse, intimate and concise. The focus throughout is on Alasdair’s deft acoustic fingerstyle guitar and his voice. The songs are variously elliptical and gnomic, direct and personal, romantic and tender.’ With sparing, decisive contributions on clarinet and tin whistle — and from Crying Lion.

• The Way Unfavoured
• Honour Song
• The Problem of Freedom
• Artless One
• Hurricane Brown
• The Final Diviner
• In Dispraise of Hunger
• The Mossy Shrine
• This Uneven Thing
• Roomful of Relics