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• Artist: Raising The Fawn
• Album: The North Sea
• Label: Sonic Unyon
• Year of Release: 2004
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-06-07

My introduction to Raising the Fawn was the EP By The Warmth of Your Flame. I was not at all impressed. That is until now. The North Sea is an amazingly diverse album that really shows Crossingham's songwriting at its finest. I know that there was some tumultuous circumstances behind The North Sea to basically implode the band but it really is a work of art. The album starts out with "The News", a song that reminds me a bit of the newer Blur stuff. It's a gentle song with some nice background vocals provided by Julie Booth. "Home" has a few Radiohead qualities about it including John Crossingham's beautiful falsetto. "Gwendolyn" is a pop masterpiece with guitar being at the forefront. "July 23rd" is back to the gentle theme of the album with John almost coaxing you to listen closer. It ends off with a beautiful little acoustic guitar line showing John's dexterity as a guitarist as well. "Top To Bottom" is experimental in nature and ends up sounding very tribal. They bring us out of the fog with the fairly bright and energetic "Drowned". The North Sea should be viewed as a success an an album that proves Canadians have what it takes to do this indie music thing.

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