COLIN BLUNSTONE Vinyl & CDs

Review: 'One Year' was solo art rock cornerstone Colin Bluntstone's breakout album. Folky, breathy and full of solo guitar strum and vocal bittersweetness, the album was originally relegated to just 10 tracks, with 'Caroline Goodbye' and 'Smokey Day' being our standouts, being the strange, cinematic cuts that show off Bluntstone's pucklike voice most enjoyably. Now, on this reissue by Sundazed, we're delivered an expanded edition, racking up the numbering to a whopping 24 tracks, adding a previously unheard second part, 'That Same Year', to the album's rear. The new songs are of refreshing mono demo quality, and are testament to an artist that has a wealth of melancholy originals still waiting to be unleashed from the vaults.