Veneer [LP]

Rating

Album: Veneer [LP]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Slow Moves
2)	Remain
3)	Lovestain
4)	Heartbeats
5)	Crosses
6)	Deadweight on Velveteen
7)	All You Deliver
8)	Stay in the Shade
9)	Hints
10)	Save Your Day
11)	Broken Arrows

Album: Veneer [LP]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Slow Moves
2)	Remain
3)	Lovestain
4)	Heartbeats
5)	Crosses
6)	Deadweight on Velveteen
7)	All You Deliver
8)	Stay in the Shade
9)	Hints
10)	Save Your Day
11)	Broken Arrows

Performer Notes

The Swedish-born singer and guitarist Jose Gonzalez performs subtly beautiful acoustic folk-pop with an impeccable musical technique and vocals that recall the 1960s duo Simon & Garfunkel. Songs like "Heartbeats," "Crosses," and "Deadweight on Velveteen" are quietly seductive and utterly beguiling.

Professional Reviews

Spin (p.137) - "[H]e exhales snatches of rainy-day poetry and finger-picks his guitar like he's backing a suicidal flamenco dancer." - Grade: A-

Entertainment Weekly (No. 838, pp.141-142) - "...Gonzalez is a gifted Swedish singer-songwriter...whose deft, syncopated fingerpicking and hushed vocals are hypnotic..." - Grade: B plus

Magnet (p.100) - "Gonz?lez's deceptively complex guitar playing and brooding lyrics are the focus of his debut."

CMJ (No. 934, p.4) - "...[R]eflects a Scandinavian minimalism, a Celtic mysticism and a Latin romanticism..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.78) - "[T]here's a classical element to his guitar playing that seems to deposit him into a world entirely of his own."