MP3: Windmill - Ashmatic

Matthew Thomas Dillon, Windmill, has crafted pop songs with grand proportions and grand gestures - like Michael Stipe and Wayne Coyne lifting their bands up by the scruff of there necks and demanding huge sounds that work just as well in the rain as in the Sun. Songs that are sung down to the floor when the sun is out, or upwards when the sky begins to fall, always bringing to mind expansive landscapes and wide open spaces. But as Dillon suggests, don’t judge this by the positive response it has received everywhere, nor on the above comparisons that occurred to me the moment I heard this record. But it deserved of all the recommendations, the instrumentation is huge and responsive, and voice pushes the album right towards the Mercury Music Prize. One of the best artists of the year.

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Recommended if you like: Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, all the above.

Myspace: /windmillband
More: Hype Machine / Elbo.ws
Buy album from: Melodic Records

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Photo by Rupert Noble

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