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David Sutton - Album Review: V

18 Dec 2016 // A review by Peter-James Dries

V. The letter that plagued the unnamed anti-hero in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, and whose shape was illustrated through narrative structure by author Thomas Pynchon (whom keen observers would know thrice appeared in The Simpsons wearing a paper bag with question mark mask).

In the case of David Sutton, V is for Victory. V is the best of the three David Sutton releases I have reviewed so far.

It's also worth mentioning, this is the case on the case of David Sutton's V, which features Sutton pulling a pose that throws back to "Tricky Dick" Nixon famously signalling victory in the Vietnam War (and his resignation from office in 1974).

With its three colour palate, the simple, yet effective cover has the aesthetic of a rare treasure of an LP, the type you'd find in a record shop if you only had some time and a handful of twenties in your backburner. Sutton has even gone as far as to separate the songs into Side A and B. It's the type of music that would go well on vinyl, though lovers of analogue would argue everything sounds better on vinyl.

Beyond being a throwback to the style of records of old, the cover represents the music in another way. Previous releases 40 and Cheese felt like scrapbook collages of ideas and influences, not unlike their covers. V on the other hand has more mature, and consistent sound and tone, as if it were conceived as a whole album, and not just a collection of songs that deserved a release.

Swinging between up and down beat, V is a journey into jazzy blues rock, narrated by David Sutton's distinctive singing voice. The keyboards with their Hammond organ tone add a new dimension to the record, another throwback to the vinyl days.

That's not to say the quirkiness of older releases is completely missing. Wine connoisseurs can tell you that a full bodied red has flavour hints of cherry, mown lawn and burnt toast.

V has hints of Bowie, Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins in the track Space, and strangely, in the track Love Struck, Marilyn Manson, although I'm likely hearing the musical forefathers those more recent bands themselves referenced and were influenced by. Like the music of those bands, V is a culmination of the years of hard work and life lessons and everything that came before.

Let us hope V is Sutton's victory march, a sign of things to come, and not his resignation.

Like with previous releases there are video accompaniments on the David Sutton YouTube.

You can find V on the David Sutton Bandcamp or on Soundcloud, which also hosts his cover of High School Musical hit Breaking Free.

 

About David Sutton

David writes and records songs.




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Releases

Cat Food
Year: 2023
Type: Album
Planet B
Year: 2020
Type: Album
Eternal Memory
Year: 2019
Type: Album
Upside-Down World
Year: 2018
Type: Album
Binary
Year: 2017
Type: Album
V
Year: 2016
Type: Album
40
Year: 2014
Type: Album
Cheese
Year: 2013
Type: Album
Mr. Rainbow
Year: 2011
Type: Album
Remember
Year: 2009
Type: Album

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