Review:
'HANDYSIDE, PAUL'
'Tide, Timber And Grain'
- Label: 'Self Released'
- Genre: 'Folk'
- Release Date: '1st April 2015'
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Our Rating:
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This Newcastle singer songwriter's third solo collection of ten crooning ballads steers a resolutely mainstream course in which the trappings of the modern world barely get a look in.
"Sometime the world it moves too fast" Handyside sings on True Love but it certainly doesn't in these tunes. Here we find woodcutters and whalers of 1905 plus ships in harbours offering a means of escape.
The songs seem to inhabit a parallel universe beyond simple nostalgia in which the power of love is capable of conquering all evil and salvation may be found in the bible.
On tracks like Flowers Won't Bloom and Goodnight Lover the slushy sentiments might have been straight out of Mills & Boon romances and make this album the epitome of lightweight easy listening.
Paul Handyside's website
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author: Martin Raybould
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