Burn Everything
Album | The Woodwards
Stripped-down second release by Dutch singer-songwriter.
Following 2009's full-band debut, Dutch-born singer-songwriter Peter Schuyff reconfigures The Woodwards into a nearly solo project on the understated but brilliant five-song EP Burn Everything. Schuyff's haunting, rugged voice and acoustic guitar are accompanied only by the a cappella vocal trio of Signe Tollefsen, Femke Bouma, and Marleen van der Wolde, who provide sweet, subtle harmonies. Schuyff's half-spoken vocals and narrative-heavy lyrics occupy center stage, setting the scene for poetic, sometimes tortuous anecdotes on life, love and art: Schuyff was a well-known, critically-lauded painter in the 1980s and '90s, and continues to paint when not recording and touring. The simple, raw tunes are suited to this stripped-down presentation: too much other instrumentation could cause songs as lyrically packed as "Ursula Peterson" to sound overstuffed. Echoes of everyone from Leon Redbone and Tom Waits to Smog and Arab Strap percolate through these five songs, but Schuyff's inimitable style shines through.
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