Almost Charlie - Tomorrow's Yesterday

Words On Music
(WM33: 656605776125)
Release date: 10/09/2012
Genre: Indiepop

$12.00

Signposts: The Beatles, Kings of Convenience, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake.

Following up on their acclaimed American debut The Plural of Yes (2009), Berlin singer / multi-instrumentalist Dirk Homuth and New York City lyricist Charlie Mason present Tomorrow’s Yesterday, a new album showcasing 11 wistful gems – each borne from an uncommon transatlantic songwriting duo who, to this day, have never met.

Coalescing an idiosyncratic and sophisticated flair with unmatched tunefulness, Tomorrow's Yesterday summons giants like Nick Drake, The Beatles, and Simon & Garfunkel as departure points on an infectious tour of chamber, acoustic, and atmospheric pop.

Beds of lush harmonies, strings, glockenspiel, woodwinds, ukulele, sitar, and melodica populate songs that are alternately fragile (“Undertow”) and soaring (“Open Book”) but are always delivered with Homuth’s authenticity and love affair with melodies that are at once unexpected and unforgettable.

Mason continues to pen some of the sharpest and most playful narratives on the independent music scene – crafting yet another intercontinental pop masterpiece with Homuth that will leave its mark as one of the indispensable indie records of 2012.

1. Hope Less (3.21)
2. Open Book (2.57)
3. Sandsong (3.40)
4. Man Without a Home (4.01)
5. A Nice Place to Die (3.05)
6. Tomorrow’s Yesterday (4.22)
7. Still Crazy ‘bout You After All These Years (3.12)
8. Cummings (3.10)
9. Youth Is Wasted On the Young (3.27)
10. Undertow (3.29)
11. When Venus Surrenders (7.41)