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Status: Single
City: Glasgow
State: Scotland
Country: UK
Signup Date: 11/8/2005

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December 14, 2009 - Monday 

Category: Music

Phantomchannel put it at number 6...

6. Collected Recordings | Gareth Dickson (Drifting Falling)
An over-looked gem of a record where Labradford meets Nick Drake in one of the most dream-like of recordings in 2009.  Glasgow-based Dickson is a master craftsman and his songs are simply sublime.
http://phantomchannel.wordpress.com/

And Textura at number 7...

07. Gareth Dickson: Collected Recordings (Drifting Falling)
Throughout Dickson's fifty-minute recording, the finger-picking of his steel-stringed acoustic guitar merges wonderfully with his fragile voice, and the peaceful ambiance created by the slow-motion tracks proves seductive too.
http://www.textura.org/reviews/2009top10s.htm


"Don't Pee On The Rug" put it at number 5 of the year...


Best records of 2009
It eventually became a top 25. No digressions why some boards are as good or how it can unmap a plate and set to 1. Just a list of 25 titles so ... 













Volcano Choir - unmap (JAGJAGUWAR)
 
02 Akron / Family - Set 'Em Game, Set' Em Free (Dead Oceans) 
03 Fever Ray - Fever Ray (V2/Rabid) 
04 ISIS - Wooden Arms (Ipecac) 
05 Gareth Dickson - Collected Recordings (Drifting Falling) 
06 Epic45 - In All The Empty Houses (EP, Make Mine Music) 
07 Sleeping States - In the Gardens of the North (Bella Union) 
08 Nils Frahm - Winter Music (Sonic Pieces) 
09 Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (Bpitch Control) 
10 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) 
11 Molina & Johnson - Johnson & Molina (Secretly Canadian) 
12 The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead (Fat Cat) 
13 Ben Frost - By The Throat (Bedroom Community) 
14 The Black Atlantic - Reverence for Fallen Trees (Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck) 
15 Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade (Southern Lord) 
16 Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Canvas Gray Sky (Fang Bomb) 
17 Iran - Dissolver (Narnack) 
18 Clorinde - The Creative Listener (Etruscan) 
We vs. 19. Death - A Black House, A Colored Home (Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck) 
20 Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky) 
21 Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City) 
22 Alcoholic Faith Mission - 421 Wythe Avenue (Pony) 
23 Simon Scott - Navigare (Miasmah) 
24 Pan American - White Bird Release (Kranky) 
25 Matt Bartram - Left To Memory (Drifting Falling)

May 6, 2009 - Wednesday 
New compilation album out now on Drifting Falling. It has a few tracks from the first album "Spruce Goose", a few from "Solina Sea"  and a couple that have never been released. I have put 2 tracks on my page for a listen. You can buy it here... http://www.driftingfalling.com/ 
There is some excellent stuff on this label, well worth checking out their other releases. 

Here is a review from Norman Records...

"Gareth Dickson had an album out called 'Spruce Goose' a few years back and it was always a steady seller for us, mainly down to it having an atmospheric beauty that many folksters & acoustic types don't quite muster. He's quite a master at combining acoustic resonance & ambient moods. His style is definitely schooled in the shadow of Nick Drake whilst this warm echo-laden aura permeates his atmospheric plucking, strumming and thumbing, almost creating an additional instrument from his bare surroundings. His voice, employed intermittently, is hushed and melancholy, almost an afterthought to his playing which is gently exploratory, extremely calming and fascinatingly tentative with the sounds of the studio such as the creak of a chair becoming much a part of the overall tapestry. This is one of the loveliest modern acoustic works I've heard and the fact is I'm taking one home to soothe my weary post bank holiday bonce tells you I heartily recommend its magical purity. Collected Recordings is CD only on Drifting Falling."