Adrian Crowley – The Birdwatchers – EP Review
by Killian Laher

Adrian Crowley follows up last year’s Measure of Joy album with this five-track EP.  It opens with She Brings Oblivion, standard issue Crowley (which is a good thing), a duet of sorts with Nadine Khouri.  The EP is mostly piano-based; his cover of Velvet Underground’s Ocean is rendered on that instrument, and it works pretty well.  He sticks with the piano for a dead slow version of Measure of Joy.

Crowley was born to sing Leonard Cohen, and here he does that with a bottom-of-the-sea rendition of The Partisan, not actually written by Cohen but popularised by him.  The EP finishes with the gorgeous instrumental piano-based title track, with cello from Mary Barnecutt.  Fans of Adrian Crowley will want to seek this EP out.

She Brings Oblivion