Duncan Lloyd - Suzee
You may know Duncan Lloyd from his day-job as Maximo Park’s guitarist. If you didn’t, you would be left with little doubt after a quick spin of this debut solo single. But hell, sounding a bit like the band that created a single as good as Apply Some Pressure is no bad thing.
Simple and uncomplicated, Suzee sounds like a demo version of a Maximo track, perhaps due to his no-frills approach to writing and recording. Studio time has been kept to a minimum and his ideas are home-recorded as he goes along. With its linear guitar riff, Suzee is brief and to the point, in a two-and-a-quarter minute package with no time-stretching bridges.
Rather bizarrely Lloyd’s phrasing makes him sound as though English is not his first language. “Not being a natural singer I’d just go with the feel of the songs,” he says. You do get the feeling that he is not one of life’s natural self-publicists though. “Sometimes I’m a bit out of tune, but like the album, that’s all part of the charm, I guess,” he says of his recent unannounced live solo performances. Then again. It’s never stopped Ian Brown.
Suzee is released on September 29 and is taken from the album Seeing Double (out October 6).
11:55 AM | 25/09/2008
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