Signed CD - Peter Deaves - Ceol Agus Gra

From the banks of the River Mersey to the forests of the Île-de-France region, Peter Deaves' unconventional journey unfolds in Ceol Agus Grá ("Music and Love" in Gaelic), his debut album.

The singer-songwriter and composer from Liverpool celebrates "old forms of life" and the nostalgia of youth and lost loves in a folk-pop-country collection illuminated by lush live instrumentation (lap steel, double bass, mandolins, banjos, flugelhorn, flutes...) and the analog warmth of tube amplifiers.

Close to the rich, deep tones of Townes Van Zandt and Ricky Nelson, Peter Deaves' voice is the other common thread in an album that also hints at the Beatles ("Nowhere Boy"), Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith ("Quarter Past"), and Neutral Milk Hotel and Radiohead in the brilliant Britpop compression of "Gasoline."