Tom Williams is keeping busy. Hot on the heels of his recent Penguin EP he’s releasing a follow-up called simply February EP. There are 5 songs on there that are so thoroughly English you feel like you’re listening to a busker in Kensington Gardens instead of an acclaimed solo artist. People are throwing around terms like anti-folk and comparisons to Lightspeed Champion for Tom Williams & The Boat and I hear all that.
But these songs fit just as easily into a revised troubadour type sound; like a Bob Dylan for the 00′s. In other spots though, these sound as layered and lyrically evolved as something the Decemberists might release. On “Small Boy” there’s a lot of stopping and starting and frantic shifts in dynamics. While “Train Station Car Park” is more about family dynamics and getting old, than it is about said car park and the horrible traffic on the M25. February is another step forward for Tom Williams & The Boat
Small Boy
Train Station Car Park
“Trixy Vixen Does It Again” also from the February EP (and btw if you’re an artist and you’re not taking advantage of YouTube you’re crazy!)