From FAT CAT, a wonderful album from new artist SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT that fits nicely in spirit with the label's recent DROWSY release. This is an album that shines with lo-fi beauty home-recorded in a kitchen on a 4-track cassette recorder over three months during 2002. Despite the lo-fi 'limitations' of the recording, what's emerged is something fragile, yetcoherent, beguiling and beautiful. Far from limited in musical scope or ambition, there's an absolute confidence and conviction to both songwriting and playing, a warm depth and dimensionality to the structures. From the opening tingle of "I Am Daylights" to the closing chord decay of "From Here ToSomewhere Else", the album reveals Duncan's ear for a sweet melody and some gorgeous vocal harmonising. These are quite simply a set of simply beautiful, beautifully sung and played songs.As you listen, recall BUTTERFLY CHILD, TALK TALK / MARK HOLLIS, SIMON & GARFUNKEL, FLYING SAUCER ATTACK, JEWELLED ANTLER COLLECTIVE, RICHARD YOUNGS and GALAXIE 500.