| Over the last four years, Limerick-based
Stephen Ryan, the one-man band turning the
cogs behind the Windings machine, has been
recording and re-recording whenever and wherever
time and opportunity allowed. What's emerged
from this lengthy gestation period is an
album which knows that it's the melodies
that will get you every time regardless of
what's around them. Ryan tries his hand with
a couple of different styles - ranging from
the wonderful metallic clatter of Postal
to the more folky introspection of Bubbles,
with Aisling Geary's cooing counterbalancing
Ryan's worldweary pitch - but it's his ability
to come up with crafty, often deceptively
skewed melodies that keep this album from
wobbling completely off-track. Within each
song, there's a veritable carnival of offstage
noises and effects, all the better to colour
in the lines on what's a compelling debut
album. |
