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Strawbs make a strong statement with Settlement
Strawbs latest studio album, Settlement, has founding member and multi-instrumentalist Dave Cousins feeling that this is a remarkable achievement, since each track was produced remotely from home studios.
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May 12, 2021
Strawbs in 1973 (L-R): Dave Lambert, Dave Cousins, Blue Weaver, Richard Hudson and John Ford (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns) and Cousins, below, performing in New York City (Photo by Al Pereira/WireImage).
Strawbs latest studio album, Settlement, has founding member and multi-instrumentalist Dave Cousins feeling that this is a remarkable achievement, since each track was produced remotely from home studios.
By Dave Thompson
Reviewed by Tony Cummings
With Joanne Hogg and Dave Bainbridge much in evidence on several tracks this debut for the session-seasoned drummer has much of the haunting, billowing Celtic mood of lona. But there are other delights as well. The gruff Ibo singing of Ben Okafor on Christ Be In Me , the droning E-bow of Stuart Garrard on The Lord Reigns . The Joanne Hogg led Christ Be In Me catches the ears, but throughout the feel is of sensitivity and worshipful restraint unusual for an album fronted by a drummer. A rich investigation of musical textures by seriously gifted musicians.