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Ed Harcourt - Until Tomorrow Then: The Best Of
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Ed Harcourt has, typically, waited a polite length of time before releasing his best of; some five or six albums (depending whether you count B-side compilations) into his career now as he is. And a precocious collection it is too, charting the scratchy beauty of debut mini-album Maplewood (2000) all the way up to the obligatory two newies. It’s a 50/50 kind of record, though. While the guy clearly has soul aplenty, too often his fey approach to a vocal leaves you cold, or, worse, sounds forced. Musically he is much more adept though, with Apple Of My Eye, Watching The Sun Come Up, This One’s For You and All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed particularly showing a wonderful (and all too rare) leftfield slant on ye olde singer-songwriter tag (even if some of the lyrics are pretty uninspiring). Favour never seemed to fall the right way for Harcourt, though, and it’s sad to think his Mercury nomination (in 2001, for the sublime Here Be Monsters) may well be the peak of his career. But you never know, it’s dangerous to write off the unpredictable.
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Reviewed by Jake Kennedy
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