Press
Expecting Great Things (2009)
‘Grant Campbell is an underground treasure, and it is vital that you grab this record and become almost at one with yourself again’
- For Folks Sake
‘Grant Campbell’s intimate third album pushes his haunting vocal to the fore’ 4/5
- The Skinny
‘His voice remains as distinctive and evocative as ever, notably on the unusually upbeat Red River, the unexpectedly pretty Careless Words (which recalls the gentle country-rock of Mike Nesmith’s First National Band) and the title track, with its Dylanishly simple harmonica solo’ - Sunday Times ****
‘This is an outstanding second album and the collection of fourteen tracks is as understated as it is brilliant’ - Reverb Magazine ****^
‘14 songs each possessing the power to halt any listener unwittingly in their tracks and leave them staring pensively into the middle distance’ - The List ****
‘On his second release, Campbell has hit something of a modern benchmark that many singer-songwriters can only aspire to’ - The Skinny ****
‘Campbell’s music displays the richness of theme and conviction of early Springsteen met with the lilting laid-back manner of later Bob Dylan, it’s a glorious concoction of truthful soulful melancholy that’s as uplifting and relaxing as Drake, Cohen and Jeff Buckley’ - Room Thirteen ****
‘Poetically powerful and often set in urban darkness or shadow, his songs are steeped in loss, alienation, temporal innocence, the need to escape and the unsayable in relationships, yet filled with a meditative sense of optimism and ultimate redemption’ - Scotland on Sunday ***
‘Both understated and atmospheric, Beyond Below gives a respectful nod to Bruce Springsteen at his most vulnerable’ - The Scotsman ***
‘Slow, simple, unadorned and powerful’ - Sunday Times - Album of the Week ****
Evoking Micah P Hinson and Bruce Springsteen, gravelly Glasgow troubadour Grant Campbell is an inner-city cowboy, a brambly folk Romeo: a quiet delight to behold. His enchanting 2005 debut album, Postcards from Nowhere, was recorded at home in Glasgow. Its a gentle, exquisite exposition of amber ranch canticles and scorched alt-folk lullabies: it is unadorned, potent, gruff and wonderful. - Triptych
‘13/13…this is one of the best debuts of years passed, a real hidden treasure that must be found by all’ - Room Thirteen
‘A voice and writer to watch’ - Net Rhythms
‘He may be a little country, a little bit rock’n'roll, but all of his songs have an emotional honesty that cuts straight to the heart’ - Sunday Herald
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