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Single Review: Jay Jay Pistolet – Happy Birthday To You EP (Stiff Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 17 November 2008
Jay Jay Pistolet is 21 year-old Justin Hayward Young. He is next in that shuffling line of soft-hearted and subdued British singer-songwriters who write songs of the heart rather than the head, and whose instruments of choice are busted old acoustic guitars, toy xylophones and ukuleles. Produced by Charlie Fink of Noah And The Whale, ‘Happy Birthday To You’ is a gentle and extremely charming four-track debut EP that perfectly showcases Jay Jay’s soothing and tender vocal stylings. Stand out track ‘Always On My Way Back Home’ is a dulcet ode where Jay Jay claims his kind is a dying breed – funny that, when there seems to have been a sudden flux of navel-gazing sensitive songbirds who could likely give Conor Oberst a run for his tear-sodden money. But when the lyrics are this humble and the voice is this raw, there is no doubt that in his sadness Jay Jay will cause many a listener to fall in love with him. TW
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