Anybody who's ever had the fortune to have a decent break in the Scottish Highlands will give the same response. It's an experience which puts everything into context, puts your small everyday concerns and anxieties into perspective as the irrelevancies that they are.
The splendidly named Lomond Campbell knows this all too well, having relocated from Edinburgh to a leaking, decrepit, asbestos school-house in the shadow of Ben Nevis as his home and studio a couple of years back. His new album Black River Promise is the result of this. And it delivers on that promise.
With orchestral backing, to provide the swell and scope of the vast enveloping landscape that provides Campbell's guiding inspiration, this is a record that sits splendidly as the soundtrack for the early part of a Sunday morning. Reminiscent, most obviously of Nick Drake's Bryter Later but it's mostly Campbell's own. A labour of pure love.
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