Signed Vinyl - Peter Deaves - Ceol Agus Gra

From the banks of the River Mersey to the forests of the Île-de-France, Peter Deaves' atypical trajectory runs through Ceol Agus Grá ("Music and Love" in Gaelic), his first 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 abundant live instrumentation (lapsteel, double bass, mandolins, banjos, bugle, flutes, etc.) and the analog warmth of tube amps.

Close to the rich and 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 shadows of the Beatles ("Nowhere Boy"), Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith ("Quarter Past"), and Neutral Milk Hotel and Radiohead in the brilliant Britpop compression of "Gasoline."