Sam Beeton is the new matter, or so it says in so many words as I gaze crosswise another bubbling press spillage. But soft, this 19-year old isaac Bashevis Singer songwriter has got it going on � brought up in a musical household, he has lived and breathed music since birth and been playing since he was 7. Still singing in his local pothouse, Beeton comes with the full weight of major record ship's company support; his Bebo, Facebook, MySpace ad pop-ups all pinging around, but scorn all this frippery, the glory of the well-written tune stands proud on his debut album.
Single and album unfastener, What You Look For, has been co-written with Eg White, fondly remembered as character of Eg and Alice, but as well recently the hand on the tiller of Duffy's Warwick Avenue and Adele's Chasing Pavements. The finish job shows. But it is non all well-nigh collaboration, as the oddment of the album is well written (by Beeton solely) and delivered pop, sweetly orchestrated.
Mocha Mocha is a corking pop individual, nothing more, nothing less. Sounding like a bemused gem from high-period Squeeze, it thematically develops the coffee-flavoured kisses of Last Train to Clarkesville. Finally Gone is Monkees, Beatles and Byrds in unrivaled rather big jangle and Best Friend, with its torch and twang overtones shows big promise, with a neat line in a chorus, ''You have always been my best friend, shallow and deep until the end''.
So, Sam Beeton is something of a find. Youth is where we are at again � with Noah and The Whale and the soon-to-come Joe Devine, it is still something else to be danton True Young with a good tune, and No Definite Answer is crammed full of them.
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