'A Northen Country', Adrian Crowley's third album is being released in the UK/Europe on Misplaced Music, in the USA on Ba DA Bing records and in Ireland on Catchy Go Go. The album will launched with a gig in Whelans on Monday 14th June with a very special guest to be announced. Here's a review that just came in from the American magazine 'Losing Today' Review from Losing Today Where the mellow meets the magical, Galway musician Adrian Crowley’s third album ‘A northern country’ is a composite collection of twelve quietly smouldering epics appreciably at their most arresting listened to in the early twilight hours in the arms of a loved one or lost in faraway memories. Dusty rustic arrangements underpin the heartbreaking fractured story telling found within, weighted lovingly by the drifting accompaniment of empathising strings that sooth the bitter sweet settings, overall ‘A northern country’ is like a freshly painted pastoral landscape left out in the rain, the damp warping and dulling the colours to temper its sheen while it’s inner glow remains unfettered. Obvious reference points would suggest Red House Painters and Smog, yet there’s something betrayingly innocent and wide-eyed about these picture-esque glimpses that suggest the underlying hope peeping shyly through the melancholia as previously delicately woven by Nick Drake (especially on the prickly beautiful ‘Morning Frost’ or the nakedly sparse hurting ‘Happiness came to my door’) are at hand, while the caressing elegance of the title track daintily combines the majesty of the Fence Collective’s finest authors of numbing timeless pop and the early exquisite charm of Belle and Sebastian. Elsewhere the genteel ‘Piano Song’ and ‘Harmonium Song’ centre around (obviously) a piano and a harmonium, ‘Brake Lines’ achingly unfurls recalling Codeine’s slo-core dynamics while the albums centre point is found at ‘Cassiopoia’ which sensitively twists the sorrow screw ever so tightly to provide the most brooding moment of shadow filled pop this side of Black Heart Procession. Quite personal and quite simply perfect.