Member Since: 07/12/2006
Band Members: eddie halliday
Wayter
Sounds Like: REVIEWS EDDIE HALLIIDAY - Replaced By These Colours
GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE - "this album pops with technicolour rays of sunshine and life...he has a real arsenal of joyful, catchy folk-pop wonderment...this is a great album to welcome British Summer Time with."
DIESHELLSUITDIE .CO.UK - "this is a really lovely little album, which far transcends what has come to be expected from modern folk, or nu folk.." 8/10
FATEA - "It's a more mature album. Halliday is a multi instrumentalist of some ability..This time around he uses his instrumentation to better effect and the result is an album that encompasses his songwriting and gives it more strength. Similarly it's an album that wears it's influences on it's sleeve more, draws on life's great canvass to great effect."
WAYTER - The Marco Polo EPTHE SILENT BALLET - "a heartstopping melange of cathartic guitar lines and distant chanting. As its last notes fade its almost impossible for the listener not to press play and repeat the whole process once more. It’s that kind of release."ORGAN MAGAZINE - " post-rock, nothing obvious though, just intelligent warmth and a new band wishing to challenge themselves as well as you and me. Slint-edged intelligent colourful accomplished alternative indie other rock, four impressive tracks and a quiet intensity, a calm storm of inviting ambitious warmth. Brooding gentle goodness and screams floating down on the big breeze"
EDDIE HALLIDAY - Run For The Woods
AMELIA’S MAGAZINE issue 07 -The best thing about Halliday is that he uses shed-loads of instruments. Accordian and Neutral Milk Hotel-y brass on opener Don’t Be So Cold; Johnny Cash-y violins on Drowned Man; tender harmonica on Shooting Star; organ on Casio Pop Song. Extravagant it may seem, but he’s a knack for amalgamating ‘em all in such a way that you’re never totally sure what your listening to. Indie, pop or folk-rock – you get the picture. This is finethough because his consistent vocal keeps everything in check, like the string you hold onto at the bottom of a bunch of helium balloons, so none of it get’s out of control. A lesson in keeping things in check then, from an afro’d man who flirts dangerously with extensive dreariness at times but keeps his undertones chirpy enough to be worth checking out. He’d be a super cooler-than-thou musical namedrop too, when around the dick-heads. Yeah, you know who I mean. Does that make me as bad as them? Of course not. TH
MAKENOISEANDDANCE webzine -
Recording this album over a period of two years and playing most of the instruments himself, Eddie Halliday has triumphed in the art of home recording. Turning his hand to guitar, banjo, bass and glockenspiel to name but a few instruments, his multiple instrumental talents are reflected in the eclectic nature if this album.I’d mention specific tracks, but the artwork makes it near impossible to see some of the names but Run For The Woods veers from its Fionn Reagan-esque melodica-laden opening to Casio-beat Americana to melancholy sixties sunshine. The range of genres being spanned in thirteen tracks may be a little disorientating but every track is beautiful, well written, well recorded and clearly comes across as a labour of love.
ROCK 'N' REEL Magazine Issue 3 -
Eddie halliday recorded his debut album, Run For The Woods, over a period of two years on a budget of practically nothing. Recording and playing the considerable array of instruments himself, including guitars, banjo, drums, piano, harmonium, harmonica and glockenspiel, the resulting thirteen track album is a sometimes slightly shambolic but ultimately successful collection that stops off at various musical reference points - the psychedelic, Sergeant Pepper's atmosphere of opener 'Don't Be So Cold', the sharper, sparky riffing of 'City On Fire' and the breezy country atmospherics of 'Shooting Star'. And that's just the opening three tracks! Elsewhere he's often bold and engaging, the beguiling banjo and trumpet coloured 'You'll Never Sing Again' being a case in point. In fact, save for the unfortunately titled 'Watching Paint Dry', there's hardly a duff track included and when you consider that so much here falls roughly into a similar region as the music of people like Alastair Roberts, Elliott Smith and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, and to the advantage of Halliday as far as comparisons go, you wonder just how long he can remain unsigned.
COMFORT COMES Webzine -
Popular opinion would suggest that variety makes for a good album and Eddie Halliday has managed to pull off just that. Run For The Woods is an album which has so many different types of tracks it almost feels like a compilation album.The main theme of this CD is folk but Halliday has crafted tunes to fit the many different sounds in the genre. From the opening track Don’t Be So Cold which gradually builds layers over the melodica to create a full band sound to the acoustic sounds of Just A Breath there is plenty to keep your ears entertained. A few songs are carried by real charm such as Let’s Do It Again which sounds as if it was recorded live in one take.The albums best track has to be Drowned Man, an acoustic number which is also accompanied by string in the background to give it that extra melody and give it a slight uplifting feel.Another song which stands out from the others is City on Fire which breaks away from the folk mould and into a more Snow Patrol style pop rhythm showing just how versatile Eddie Halliday can be.Overall this is a fascinating album which keeps your interest throughout. Fans of folk will definitely not be disappointed.
FATEA Website -
Before I get onto the contents of Run For The Woods, I need to mention the packaging. I like the pencil sketches, but you need to do something about the writing. It's difficult to make out. If I was just browsing in a shop I would just pass it by. It's a shame because contentwise this is a pretty strong set of songs. Eddie Halliday seems to be able to turn his observations of life into some damned fine acoustic pop/rock. He pretty much plays all of the instruments on the album and seems to have mastered them all. Run For The Woods has got verve and energy in abundance. Well worth a punt.
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Type of Label: Indie