Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family – ‘She Painted Pictures’ (Lavolta) Released 12/02/07

As we all know, Liam Frost is a very talented singer-songwriter.  ‘She Painted Pictures’ glimmers with a relaxed, shimmering beauty – laden with attractive harmonies, an array of plinky-plonky instruments and acoustic strumming.  But, as always, it really doesn’t seem like anything new.  Sure he’s got a great voice and oodles of talent but he also sounds just like the even more eccentric and even more appealing, Duke Special.  B side ‘(Are You) The One I’ve Been Waiting For?’ is rather inferior, with an unusual backing track and out-of-sync, overly mournful vocals.  It’s not exactly talent gone to waste, but there’s a nagging sense that Mr Frost could do so much more.