Mar 18, 2013 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
“Gifted and accessible, Liam Singer is the kind of musician for whom Fingertips exists. We are assaulted by endless sound, we are inundated by generic, laptop-fueled creations, we have abandoned meaning for virality and melody for sensation, and yet even here,...
Mar 25, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Sublime cut from last year’s great Dislocatia album. A rushing, tacked piano opens like silent film accompaniment, then a ghost story with a spectral female backing vocal (Wendy Allen of labelmates Boxharp) carries the plot, finishing with a...
Mar 7, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The Brief Encounter has piano, hammered dulcimer, and fiddle. I believe there are also some electronically processed sounds, but if so, that is done with great subtlety. The song tells the story of a man who has an encounter with a ghost, and the song...
Mar 7, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “… Oh what can we say about this endearing darling, short, sweet, trimmed with a glowing fuzzy felt homeliness and ends unexpectedly mid flow. Well that’s the shortened version for the latest release on the much admired and esteemed hidden shoal...
Feb 23, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Liam Singer has turned out another freakishly beautiful single – a lush, dreamy dance of harpsichord and violin. The classical influences and contemporary structure marry perfectly, creating a sound that is formal but warm, romantic but slightly...
Feb 7, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “… at once understated and painted with many different sounds…. In some cases the piano carries the songs going from powerful to lilting within the course of a single song. The harpsichord in particular creates a otherworldly effect on the...
