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SOJOURN RECORDS RELEASING CAVE DRAWINGS
NODEPRESSION.NET writes on March 2008:
With twenty years gone by since his debut album, Tom Laverack has honed his writing and performing into a perfectly matched set. His voice and songs meet one another on varied turf and go gallivanting about the hillsides. World-weariness runs through the the entire set in a way that a man two decades younger couldn't have fully comprehended. "Not much changes from place to place but the scenery," Laverack sings in "Dead Dog". The soulful, horn-bolstered "Running Out Of Road" delivers on its title with a certainty tempered by a still-unquenched thirst for life. "Foolish Enough To Think" weds pop smarts to a rough-and-tumble groove and leathery vocals. The title song, rich with allegory, hypnotizes along the course of its folkish structure, punctuated with Joni Mitchell-like chordal turns and thoughtfully compelling drumming.
-- DAVID GREENBERGER
Honest Tune Online writes:
"It is a rare occurrence when an artist's compositions frame a film project. But, that is just what has happened to former Just Desserts frontman Tom Laverack and his introspective marvel, Cave Drawings on Sojourn Records. Three of Cave Drawings'songs, "Precious Little," "No Shame," and "Running Out of Road," were used for Larry Fessenden's feature,The Last Winter. "Precious Little," produced by Mark Ambrosino, stretches the vast, colorful musical landscape of Laverack's mind with sharp, insightful, poetic lyricism. Bolstered by strong sidemen such as Jeff Langston (Antony and the Johnsons) and Marc Shulman (Suzanne Vega), Laverack finds the freedom and the flow in the breezy opening track, "Coney Island Heart." Slowing down with reflection, Laverack's tools of description become the soft spoken prose of "Kickin' Around." And, powering Cave Drawings' rhythmic counterpoint, Ambrosino finds the catchy, simmering soulful stretches brewing inside of "Childhood Friend." A deeply satisfying listen, Tom Laverack's Cave Drawings rewards with each sublimely successive playing.Cave Drawings will be released January 22 on Sojourn Records.
-Bill Whiting - Honest Tune Online
CAVE DRAWINGS
Tom Laverack's newest release, four years in the making, showcases the best of Laverack's songwriting, bolstered by Mark Ambrosino’s refined production and including great performances from a stellar band, including Marc Shulman (Suzanne Vega), Jeff Langston (Antony and the Johnsons) and Mark Ambrosino (Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder), Cave Drawings offers an emotionally and musically diverse range for the listener, while tapping into the classic 50's and 60's style of production. It is folk-rock with a soulful delivery.
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Songs from Cave Drawings are featured in Larry Fessenden's highly acclaimed film, The Last Winter which opened September 19th, in New York City as and was released by IFC. Click on poster to read more about the film.
Manohla Dargis of THE NEW YORK TIMES writes:
"elegantly restrained horror ... metaphorically resonant ... Feverishly Real, Terrifying.
Larry Fessenden is among the most thoughtful Americans working on the lower-budget end of this oft-abused and mindlessly corrupted genre."
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