Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting (Deluxe Edition) (2011)

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Artist: Jamie Woon
Title Of Album: Mirrorwriting
Label: Polydor / Interscope
Year Of Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Electronic, Soul, Dubstep
Quality: CBR 256 Kbps
Tracks: 14
Time: 55:33 min
Size: 103 MB

Tracklist:

01 Night Air
02 Street
03 Lady Luck
04 Shoulda
05 Middle
06 Spirits
07 Echoes
08 Spiral
09 TMRW
10 Secondbreath
11 Gravity
12 Waterfront
13 Missing Person (Recorded As Part)
14 Spirits (YouTube Version)

Release Note:

As the stately pace of Mirrorwriting attests, Jamie Woon is not one to rush. And when the four years between his debut single, Wayfaring Stranger, and this first album have produced something so beguiling, it's clearly been time well spent.

Things would probably be quite different for Woon had he'd got his act together sooner. In 2007, his fragile cover of an old folk spiritual placed him pretty much alone at the crossroads between rural blues and urban electronica, a 20-something Robert Johnson from London who'd sold his soul to dubstep instead of the Devil. Today, though, he shares this space with The xx and James Blake; and overshadowed by The xx's Mercury Prize victory and Blake's own debut album of earlier in 2011, Woon's music could now be in danger of sounding wearily familiar rather than darkly mysterious.

Stood next to Blake and The xx, Mirrorwriting sounds like Katy Perry covering Walking on Sunshine: which is to say that he's both much more accessible and a lot less gloomy than his contemporaries, even if his music is equally enigmatic and enchanting. There is still plenty of electronic smoke-and-mirrors activity on tracks like Gravity, but despite ultra-modern tricks he's less sonic explorer than classic songwriter. Even the more experimental tracks like Shoulda follow a melodic verse-chorus-verse format, and although the shadows lengthen from the offset with lead single Night Air, Woon's lyrics are largely simple stories of romantic woe instead of evocations of nebulous melancholy, delivered in richly quavering tones reminiscent of Ben Westbeech.

It's a comparison that also suggests Woon's timing might not be so far off, after all. Now that Westbeech is departing the jazz and blues of Welcome to the Best Years of Your Life for more upbeat house territory, there's clearly a vacant space for another underground UK soulboy. Woon might be thinking about such vicissitudes of fortune when he sings "It ain't something that you can synthesise" on Lady Luck, but when it comes to creating a new compound from the timeless spirit of the blues, he's done exactly that.


Download link:
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