Red Dust EP, by The Listeners

Red Dust EP

by The Listeners

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1.	Red Dust 03:58	info	buy track
2.	Say It Like It Is 03:53	info	buy track
3.	Walk The Wire 03:30	info	buy track
4.	Dinner For One 05:12	info	buy track

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" Tell them I came, and no one answered. That I kept my word"

From ‘The Listeners’,by Walter de la Mare.

The Listeners is Emma Thorpe - on her own or with her collaborators. And she sings in cinematic detail from a small town on the North Nottinghamshire borders.

Thorpe was born into music – her mother taught her to finger-pick, introducing her to the music of PJ Harvey, Sandy Denny, Susan Vega, Roy Harper and Bob Dylan along the way; Her father Kevin was well respected on the blues scene for his albums with Out Of The Blue; And her aunt managed Welsh psychedelic legends Man.

Despite this heritage Thorpe has shaped her own evocative sound . Sometimes wilfully naive, sometimes considered and precise - her choice of chords is particular and unusual and her finger-picking weaves a strange atmosphere. And like those who inspire her - Nick Cave, Patti Smith, William Blake, she loves to muse on nature & religion: God, the devil, good and evil, and like the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood she tries to tell it like it is – to reveal both the beauty and the devastation of life: The Listeners' Red Dust, recently released on Special Sound Unit portrays human insignificance under darkening skies; Dinner For One traces the fading past of a destroyed relationship; You wouldn't think that it took years for Thorpe to accept her own arresting voice and lyrical vision. Time well spent in distillation perhaps: This is music that is close to the source. These are songs, born of tradition, alive in the present day, revealing & fragile, excecuted spare and sharp:

“My Heart hangs heavy, a beating drum, your hands around my soft neck”
Walk The Wire

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Richard Hawley : “The Listeners were f****** brilliant last night”

Music Mart Magazine : “Alternately gentle and dramatic….like PJ Harvey pissed off, unplugged and wearing a kaftan.”

This City: “Stirring stuff...Nico back from the grave for an autumn night's campfire singalong, while their hushed mid-set tracks recall "Ocean of Noise" Arcade Fire.”

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released December 1, 2010

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The Listeners Retford, UK

Richard Hawley : “The Listeners were f****** brilliant last night”

Music Mart Magazine : “Alternately gentle and dramatic….like PJ Harvey pissed off, unplugged and wearing a kaftan.”

This City: “Stirring stuff...Nico back from the grave for an autumn night's campfire singalong, while their hushed mid-set tracks recall "Ocean of Noise" Arcade Fire.” ... more

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