Arizona Dave Burn

• 1 Fine Company 03:21
• 2 Wasted 03:46
• 3 Vans 02:45
• 4 Born to Do 03:52
• 5 Litter and the Leaves 03:15
• 6 The Lie on My Breath 03:18
• 7 Love This Song 03:30
• 8 We Breathe 02:51
• 9 I'm so Numb 02:19
• 10 Till I'm Gone 02:29
• 11 The Killer 03:14
• 12 Long Lost Son 03:13
• Total Runtime 37:53

Info for Arizona

Over the course of the twelve tracks, Burn draws on personal experiences and his Americana influences to weave a reflective web that embraces both the brushed drums uptempo Calexico-ish shuffle of Born To Do and the spare acoustic fingerpicking of the cello stained Litter and the Leaves. A pleading song about losing love it finds a thematic companion piece in the piano backed striding rhythm of The Lie On My Breath, a countrified number that’ll be just as at home on a festival stage as in some Midwest barroom.

Slow waltzer Love This Song feels like a classic, breezy Clive Gregson number with the pace taken down while the final stretch also yields the folksier colours of The Breath, another circling fingerpicked circling motif, here caressed with Tom Holden’s violin. By contrast, I’m So Numb is a cranked up swaggering alt-country rocker with a punchy riff. Likewise, The Killer, a particular standout, offers a moody desert-atmosphere steeped in a stew of blues and traditional folk, a Southern gothic murder ballad, ripped midway by an electric guitar maelstrom.

He closes in contemplative mood with the rippling fingerpicked, violin and cello led melody of Long Lost Son, another number through which the spine of English folk can be clearly heard as its ends on drum roll, cymbals crash and feedback. A place marker in the debut albums of the year list has been duly assigned.

"The band Dave has assembled is superb and captures an atmospheric reality set somewhere between Neil Young and Calexico. Album opener ‘Fine Company’ sets the bar deliciously high, backing vocals from Kirsten Adamson in particular act as a fine counterpoint to Dave’s vocals. The album brims over with atmospherics, by turns uplifting, soul searching and very human. Burn sings them beautifully, capturing the right balance between emotional honesty and sparkling charisma.

There is certainly no drop off in quality from that rousing start, Burn has avoided padding of any kind on this brilliant solo outing. It proves Dave as a great songwriter and musician, building on everything he experienced as a part of ahab. As an artist he is not afraid to dig deep into himself, and Arizona proves that he has found his feet in a very confident manner indeed. We’ve had it on repeat for many weeks now and it never loses its sparkle." (spiralearth.co.uk)

Dave Burn, guitar, vocals

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