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His music may not be the most apt for the approach of a Friday night, but Voice On Tape certainly seems a fit for these autumnal times. Ear engager “Marry You When Yr Sleeping” is typical of much of the Californian-based solo artist’s work, Lou’s voice seeming to hover between the hot and the cold as if wracked by some fever brought on by a change in the weather, looped and shivering against a backdrop of strummed chords that let tales of uneven love and bickering unfold with the basic threat of a shotgun should her father dare disapprove. It’s that threat that sets Lou apart – that and the implications one can take from the fact he refuses to tell me his surname, an anonymity more reminiscent of random bar-room encounters with sore troubadours than the all-too-eager sincerity of the wimpy folk multitude.

Sounds like: Fleet Foxes, Elliott Smith, Bon Iver

Download: Voice On Tape - Marry You When Yr Sleeping

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