Album review: Martin Harley - Mojo Fix

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Monday, March 11, 2013
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Surrey-raised guitar virtuoso Martin Harley has come up with a superb

album - part acoustic, part heavy, part experimental, but amazingly it

works an absolute treat. Harley has clearly been listening to latter-day

Tom Waits, with the album bookended by the title track and Mean Old

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City, both utilising thumping drums and rumbling bass to winning effect.

But, like Waits, Harley is keen to explore as many genres as possible.

Ballad Treading Water is a stunning composition, beautifully executed,

while Cardboard King sees Harley augmented by a string section, which

works a treat. But the highlight is the ramshackle Rum Shack, which

evokes welcome thoughts of sitting on a sun-kissed balcony out west

somewhere, supping from a tumbler of the demon spirit. It all sounds a

long way from Surrey, but Harley's travels have clearly paid major

dividends.

8/10

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