Unfinished Drawings bend the rules of acoustic music to re-shape and re-energise - they don't, thankfully, break the mould altogether!!
Play 90 second soundbite of 'Eloquently Forced' @ 'CD quality'
Unfinished Drawings bend the rules of acoustic music to re-shape and re-energise - they don't, thankfully, break the mould altogether!!
This self-titled five track EP demonstrates Unfinished Drawings' super-cool songwriting and seemingly natural ability to get their distinctive sound onto disc without detriment to the overall lightness of feel or their wonderfully easy acoustic way. Unfinished Drawings keep it all beautifully honest and well matched to their excellent songs. Samples and other 'additions' are kept minimal allowing the natural timbre of the voices and guitars to stand proud and uncluttered. Unfinished Drawings have managed to balance real with synthetic and in doing so their songs have been enhanced without losing identity - less is definitely more in the case of Unfinished Drawings! However, one track in particular borders on being over-embellished; 'Verdana', although excellent takes Unfinished Drawings experimentation just about as far as it can go without falling foul of the 'too-much-tinkering' edict. Unfinished Drawings just get away with it but any more would be a bridge too far for my liking!
Unfinished Drawings' 'enhanced' acoustic music is delightfully rich in texture, vibrant and modernistic; the 'electronics' add colour where it's needed but don't cloud the issue. Tracks offered here are, 'Eloquently Forced', 'Dreaming', 'Nobody Knows It', 'Verdana' and 'Mistakes, Not Amends'; together they make a well-good introduction to a forward thinking and quite obviously talented duo - their refreshing take on acoustic music is inspired and inspirational - I'd like to think that Unfinished Drawings won't be drawn in to electro-overload - this is just fine the way it is and with their great songwriting abilities I'm sure that there's much more to come yet. I like it guys - it's bit like that old wedding day thing - something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. So, keep on bending it boys but, for God's sake, don't break it - it's a fragile formula and you need to keep it safe and secure. Unfinished Drawings are pushing the acoustic envelope and if they can keep up this high standard, the future looks pretty rosy to me!!
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