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Melbourne songsmith Paddy Mann creates quiet and soulful odes to broken bones and sorrowful homes, played and recorded with a beauteous aesthetic and filled with a lamenting sense of heartbreak and loss. Mann's quiet, gently played tunes are filled with non-clichéd observationist images of the Australian environment, his yarn-spun glimpses of dried-out riverbanks and sunlight reflecting off gum leaves only used as colors on an emotional palette painting the country as an unending stretch of heartbreaking habitat, his habitués more often than not broken men seeking respite in an unforgiving land. If that conjures up any notions of Grand Salvo being grandiose - in content, spirit, or musical delivery - you can scratch such thoughts, straight-up. In detailing such desolation - both emotional and environmental - Mann keeps things achingly simple, his songs, as rudimentary, rattling odes, often kept to the barest of bones. |
Grand Salvo Mp3's Strung Along And Dumped (from '1642 - 1727') Bend In The River (from 'River Road') |
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