Born in Canada to a Canadian mother and Scottish father, before moving to Scotland, Wright’s musical influences are American folk and classic British pop. All of this combines to inform the majority of songs on this, his debut album, and that’s no bad thing. He’s had a spot of help to realise his musical vision: the album was produced by Teenage Fanclub’s Francis MacDonald and features guest appearances by members of Camera Obscura and Belle and Sebastian, who all doubtless helped bolster the Scottish indie-pop flavour of the record.
The song are straightforward and accessible, as exemplified by the Beatles-influenced ‘Go On Yerself’, the jaunty ‘Kitchen Floor’ and the off-beat ‘Origami Me’ (which demonstrates his ability to write utterly nonsensical lyrics), and elsewhere, ‘Trampoline’ sees Wright bounce into altogether different territory with banjos, harmonicas and a big ol’ country-style lap-steel break. There’s an easy breeziness about Wright’s compositions and vocal style as he skips his way through his neatly-woven tales, although the gentle yet dramatic ‘Middle Ground’ shows that he has more strings to his bow than the singer-songwriter tag might suggest.
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