West Kirby County Primary

Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary
Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2015 Ratings: #184 / 1021
User Score
Based on 41 ratings
Liked by 3 people
November 6, 2015 / Release Date
LP / Format
Domino / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

85
The Line of Best Fit
Through the intelligent, measured expansion of the artistic characteristics for which he has been so respected since his departure from The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones has confirmed his place among this country’s most vital contemporary songwriters.
80
NME
Whereas Ryder-Jones' old band inhabited a colourful, self-contained world of soft drugs, spaghetti westerns and Scouse jabberwocky, his own sonic nook might seem smaller and more earthbound by comparison, but it's no less personal or poignant for that.
80
Mojo

West Kirby Country Primary declares the vivid flowering of a great talent.

80
Q Magazine
Life lived close to home, outside any metropolitan notions of centre, is continually apparent in these intimate melodic reveries, which mull romantic vicissitudes via folk-influenced acoustic and sometimes molten electric rock.
Z.Younk
56

This one sounded too put-together, I don't wan't to say contrived, but like a guy at a party begged to break out his guitar who reluctantly plays.

87

An album that surprised me. When I first heard "satellites" it seemed to dark for me and yet I was intrigued. The screeching guitar at the beginning just grabs you, while he then brings it all down and plays a soft, Jeff Buckley almost like riff. Songs like "Tell Me You Don't Love Me watching" and "Let's Get Away from Here" remind me of the "Candy Says" or "Pale Blue Eyes" by the Velvet Underground in all the right ways. "Wild Roses" ... read more

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Track List

  1. Tell Me You Don't Love Me Watching
  2. Two To Birkenhead
  3. Let's Get Away from Here
  4. Daniel
  5. Put It Down Before You Break It
  6. Catharine and Huskisson
  7. Wild Roses
  8. You Can't Hide a Light With the Dark
  9. Satellites
  10. Seabirds

Year End Lists

#6/MOJO
#37/Q Magazine
#47/NME
/The Line of Best Fit
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Added on: October 29, 2015