DRIFTING FALLING RECORDINGS

Glowing review of Collected Recordings at Moon Tomb.

‘collected recordings’ consists of songs from two of his prior albums (solina sea, spruce goose) and previously unreleased tracks. when i was first getting familiar with this album, i would hear certain songs playing on shuffle and mistake them for nick drake songs that i had either forgotten about or had yet to become familiar with. a perfect contrast between gentle finger-picked guitar, dreamy folk vocals, and ambient a-la brian eno or labradford. probably my favorite album of 2009. like a dream you never want to leave.

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Gareth’s “Fifth (The Impossibility Of Death)” was featured in the December 14th episode of the Vidro Azul podcast along with some other great artists.

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More end of year love for Gareth Dickson’s “Collected Recordings”.  The Perlich Post has included Collected Recordings in their “Fave 50 0f 2009″.

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Decay States has named Gareth Dickson’s Collected Recordings among it’s “2009 Favorites”.  Click through for their full list.

Chaotisch und Charmant have named “One Thousand Red Stars” from Kiku by Oppressed by the Line as number 43 on it’s list of top 50 songs of 2009.

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Chaotisch und Charmant named Kiku by Oppressed by the Line as number 15 on it’s list of top 40 albums of the year.

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Don’t Pee on the Rug have settled in on their 25 favorite albums of 2009, and there are two entries from Drifting Falling artists on the list. At number 5 is Gareth Dickson with “Collected Recordings”. At number 25 is Matt Bartram with “Left to Memory”. Simon Scott, who has recorded for Drifting Falling as Televise also makes the list at number 23 with Navigare out on Miasmah. Also worth mentioning one of our favorite artists Epic45 are on the list at number 6 with “In All The Empty Houses” out on Make Mine Music.

Gareth Dickson was recently featured on the “Thank You, Guitar” episode of Spinning on Air with David Garland on WNYC. You can listen here (Gareth Dickson start at around 13:40), or view the episode page here. It was recorded live in studio when Gareth was touring with Vashti Bunyan. The full session will air in December.

Well apparently it’s the time of year for reflection. British indie label Phantom Planet have named Gareth Dickson’s “Collected Recordings” in their list of the 50 Best albums of 2009. I know we’re supposed to be all “gosh” and humble, but sod that “we agree!”. It’s one hell of a disc. One that I think we’ll keep coming back to year after year.

6. Collected Recordings | Gareth Dickson (Drifting Falling)

An over-looked gem of a record where Labradford meets Nick Drake in one of the most dream-like of recordings in 2009. Glasgow-based Dickson is a master craftsman and his songs are simply sublime.

Textura has named Gareth Dickson’s “Collected Recordings” as Number 7 in it’s Top 20 albums of 2009! We’re very excited about this because Textura is a publication that we hold in very high regard. Read the text below.

07. Gareth Dickson: Collected Recordings (Drifting Falling)

Though Gareth Dickson cites Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Bert Jansch, Robert Johnson, and Nick Drake as influences, it’s clearly the latter that stands out from that diverse crowd in Dickson’s music; in fact, there are a few songs on Collected Recordings that sound so uncannily like the long-dead legend, they could pass for newly-discovered Drake songs. Throughout Dickson’s fifty-minute recording, the finger-picking of his steel-stringed acoustic guitar merges wonderfully with his fragile voice, and the peaceful ambiance created by the slow-motion tracks proves seductive too.

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