It's Nearly Tomorrow
It's Nearly Tomorrow
Craig Armstrong
(BMG/Chrysalis)
Six years after the last album under his own name, Glasgow composer Craig Armstrong, best known for his movie soundtrack work and particularly the music he has provided for the distinctive canon of Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann, has produced this 17-track journey.
It recalls some of his very earliest work with Bristol trip-hop posse Massive Attack in the last century, as well as the sound of The Blue Nile that impressed him as a young man.
In fact, here is that band's Paul Buchanan, providing vocals alongside fellow Glasgwegians Jerry Burns, Katie O'Halloran, and James Grant of Love & Money. Then there is Suede's Brett Anderson giving it his Berlin Bowie thing on JG Ballard ballad Crash. Whether or not this is a set Armstrong intended to be deliberately retrospectively-flavoured, it will speak to a lot of people. At once song-filled and filmic, orchestral and electronic, ambient and then underscored by a pulse beat, wistful and abstract, it alternates between instrumentals (Sing, Desole, Lontano, Tender) and songs (particularly Powder, a lovely Burns/Grant duet).
Recorded on his global travels with orchestras in the German capital and the Czech Republic, and the Scottish Ensemble in London, it is world music from a man who still has his feet firmly planted in his home city.
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