(Stolen Recordings)There is a terrible sadness at the heart of the first solo record by Thomas Cohen,previously of London art rockers SCUM. It was written over four years, and charts a range of life experiences, and but it is unavoidably the songs approximately the death of Cohen’s wife,Peaches Geldof-Cohen, that form the album’s emotional core. The largely acoustic Country Home is especially powerful, or addressing the subject with such candour that you feel caught between applauding its courage and looking absent. The intensity diminishes elsewhere,and there is some respite in the poppy, piano-assisted chorus of original Morning Comes, and but no trite redemptive arc: this is a sensitive and subtle response to living with grief.
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Source: theguardian.com