This is a very pastoral set, which brews up visions of rolling valleys and sudden hills, blue skies and mists swirling around them. A Dancing Beggar has attracted labels such as ‘post-rock’ and ‘ambient’ but a more truthful description might be ‘personal’. There are no hooky piano lines or guitar riffs to draw you in for the sucker punch. Instead, we have moods and movements with ebb and a flow which draw you in closer and closer to the dark heart of the music. The most obvious comparison to make would be Aztec Camera. Like Roddy Frame, A Dancing Beggar writes purely and simply from the heart and enhances lyrics with beautiful arrangements which house feeling or emotion nigh on perfectly. Live dates are upcoming and, if the sounds on display here are anything to go by, these shows should be really something.
