L'Apparition Demo CD Review

13/11/05

L’Apparition – Demo CD

(Contact details – lapparition@hotmail.co.uk / 0783 4954397)

It was ironic I got hold of this demo CD only days after hearing the leaked Elliott Smith album “From a basement to a hill II” on the internet.

The Elliott Smith CD without saying and wandering way from the quality of this review, is / was fantastic and sets the mood for this short demo which is a excellent follow on from that CD.

L’Apparation is Neil Wheatley, a young singer songwriter from Sheffield, UK who I have recently read somewhere else comparing to a mixture between Elliott Smith and Belle and Sebasation.

Now normally I have this fond habit of completely disagreeing with reviews, but on this review I found myself completing agreeing with it. Although sadly the first tracks “Mopper” did very, very little for me – several of the remaining four tracks on the CD are fanastic for example “So Long” and “Short Minor Blues” which despite the fact does have their own sound like a cross between both of the above also have their own personal charm and really do deserve checking out.

Setting Sun will hopefully be interviewing Neil aka L’Apparition fairly soon but in the meantime I would hearly recommend dropping him an e-mail and nagging him to put up a website for people to download / listen to his music.