Like Sleaford Mods, Deptford Goth is neither from Deptford and nor is his music goth. As such, the moniker describes neither the man nor his music. Unlike Sleaford Mods... well, everything else. His second album, the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed ‘Life After Defo’, marks something of an evolution. The familiar synth-pop, R’n’B and soul elements are present and correct, but ‘Songs’; sees the Goth (aka Daniel Woolhouse, who hails from Peckham) transition to explore introspective singer-songwriter musings within a laid-back electro framework. Actually, it’s not so much a framework as a vaporous sonic cloud.
A smooth, chilled out swell of soft-focus synths and a sparse organic rhythm provides the delicate backdrop to the Goth’s mellow vocals on the first track, ‘Relics’, and it sets the understated tone for the album as a whole. It’s pleasant, but each track drifts into the next without any real change in pace or key, and the pastel shades painted in the thinnest of watercolours spun around barely-there beats make for suitably impressionistic background music but does little to inspire focused attention.
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