New King of Convenience (Veneer - Jose Gonzalez)

Member Name: mcader

Product:	Veneer - Jose Gonzalez
Date:	24/02/09 (16 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: True, poignant stuff

Disadvantages: None

First album of swedish-born mellow guitarist Jose Gonzales is unmissable.
It's in the skilled, naked guitaring vein of Quiet-is-the-New-Loud folksters that began around Simon & Garfunkel and continues majestically only in the very proficient. Just a guitar and some rhythms and some fingerstyle.


And this guy is proficient. He gives us mature, poignant, actually more upbeat wistfulness, that is of its own nature. The lyrics are not very loud but it is as if we're overhearing them. They are understated.


So if you recognise true musicianship and always leap onto mellow albums from Radiohead, to Kings of Convenience, to John Martyn and Nick Drake, don't hesitate to get lost in the economical batterings here.


The songs will have you more motivated than Simon & Garfunkel etc, but nonetheless absorbed with a quality you sense will not tire out like other guitars and bands. 'Crosses' for example just hits the nail on the head with the hammer!


Excellent escapism that strikes out of the heart.

Summary: Excellence