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Slow Leaves

Rating: NNN


Winnipeg-based songwriter Grant Davidson released two albums under his own name before assuming the Slow Leaves moniker and asking fellow Winnipegger Rusty Matyas of Imaginary Cities to produce him. The two musicians play nearly every instrument on the appropriately named debut – indeed, beauty is everywhere on the album.

Take Second Chances, the mellow title track of Slow Leaves’ 2013 EP, reprised here with Davidson’s Doug Paisley-like tenor backed by a Bandesque bass line, acoustic guitar and organ. Or the moonlit late-night-drive closer, Rearview, with tinkling piano, harmonica and faraway “shoo-be-doops.”

On Nostalgia, Davidson draws inspiration from Neil Young’s Out On The Weekend. Elsewhere there’s a bit of boogie woogie (Life Of A Better Man), and Country Of Ideas bubbles with funky country rock.

It’s a pleasantly textured album, but one that ultimately leaves us waiting for Davidson’s personality to shine through a little more.

Top track: Second Chances

Slow Leaves play the Cameron House Monday (October 20).

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