Metaphorest’s debut album was released on November 22nd 2012, below you can preview and read about the tracks on the album, reviews, and buy the album.
Buy on Bandcamp (The physical CD is only available on Bandcamp.)
Track Breakdown
Read about the inspiration and collaborations that went in to creating Metaphorest’s debut album.
Listener Reviews
See what people are saying about the album.
Hey can’t wait to get this from iTunes
I enjoyed your youtube channel!
Thanks a lot, Brady!!x
You’re welcome!
You weren’t too hard to discover on youtube. Your pretty face can drawl anyone to your videos, and then they discover your beautiful voice <3
Hehe too kind
My uncle is a friend of your Mum and passed me on your CD. Its really nice stuff – well done!
Emmett
http://www.SonicOctave.com
Hi Emmett! Oh cool! Thanks for letting me know! Glad you like it!!
Absolutely adore your music so far. I bet Kate’s proud!
Speaking of Kate, just listening to your Babooshka cover, it’s amazing :3
Count me as a devoted fan to both of you.
Aww thanks very much!!
It’s true!
And speaking of brilliant covers… Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by Meta is downright the greatest version ever made!
Having acquired this sumptuous CD only days ago I feel compelled to extol its many virtues in a mini review if I may?
”Upon opening the gatefold sleeve, that seemingly never stops unfolding, I am instantly struck by the wonderful illustrations, and the quaintness therein. The thing I love about CD’s is the physicality of them and the extras that simply don’t come with an MP3 download. This is a warm CD and its MP3 counterpart would simply be the music, a cold shadow of the real thing. Anyway, onto the music. The influences here are manifold, from the obvious (Kate Bush) to the not so (Kirsten Hersch, Lisa Germano, Lisa Gerrard) and every female singer songwriter in between. The songs are moody (Clocks Back) and quirky (Flawed Romance – sounding so very much like the beautiful Harriet Wheeler of the sadly mourned Sundays) and even sometimes just plain beautiful (Apologist). On ‘Oh Captain’ Sarah implores some unknown sailor to ”steer this boat”. Looking for love? Put the whole male population on alert! The lyrics are astute, incisive, funny, poignant, and sometimes even sad. This is not a total surprise, as Ms Daly is also a poet of some renown, but from the evidence here, also a gifted and inspired musician too. The indie and shoegaze of songs like Clocks Back, Siren Calling, and Apologist are complemented easily by the pop sensibilities of little gems like Lake Like Glass (a heart-rendingly short 2 minutes of acoustic bliss). I play it again and I hear other influences that are not so obvious first listen, such as Foxes, Paper Crows and even Florence Welch. Sarah’s voice has a crystalline quality, and so like Kate Bush, a frailty also. But it is a confident sounding instrument, that she uses well inside the tapestry of the whole.
It is hard to see something like this being a big hit in the mainstream, but that shouldn’t distract one from its quality. The charts very often reflect very little of any real substance, and this has that in spades, so in all honesty, it is the charts’ loss that it will not be there.
If I could sum it up in one sentence, it would be this; ”Take a chance and you will be rewarded. Maybe not on the first play, maybe not on the second, but definitely by the third you will be humming these songs in the bath, on the tube or bus on the way to work, and by then you will be totally Metaphorest mad!” I know I am!