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Single: Draw Me Stories — Becomes the Hunted/Oars

8 May 2010
By For Folk's Sake
Single: Draw Me Stories — Becomes the Hunted/Oars

Draw Me Stories have a dark, foreboding, mood that infects their music. It’s a quality they share with cult 90′s emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate. It also makes for addictive listening. Their new single contains the songs ‘Becomes the Hunted’ and ‘Oars’. On ‘Becomes the Hunted’ they shift between spacey, shoegaze melodies and...
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Single: Draw Me Stories – Becomes The Hunted/Oars

27 April 2010
By Ian Parker
Single: Draw Me Stories – Becomes The Hunted/Oars

Draw Me Stories have turned the power back on. Following up on last year’s album The Unplugged Sessions and The Sky And The Mirror EP, they return with the new double A side single Becomes The Hunted/Oars, and it represents the most sweeping, frenetic material in their diverse output to date. If they’ve been...
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Alessi’s Ark, Treetop Flyers and Draw Me Stories play charity gig at Union Chapel

21 January 2010
By Lynn Roberts
Alessi’s Ark, Treetop Flyers and Draw Me Stories play charity gig at Union Chapel

The enchanting Alessi’s Ark will headline a concert in aid of leukemia charity The Anthony Nolan Trust. The gig on 28th January will be held at London’s Union Chapel and will feature support from FFS favourites West Londoners Treetop Flyers and the ‘Diff’s Draw Me Stories. Alessi said: “I met Cheryl, the lady organising the concert,...
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EP: Draw Me Stories — The Sky and the Mirror

12 November 2009
By Lynn Roberts

Already spurred by critical acclaim from their first album and their stonking live performances, the Cardiff trio have released The Sky and the Mirror, an impressive collection of four songs infused with rock, a dash of funk and lashings of folk.
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Album: Draw Me Stories – The Unplugged Sessions

1 June 2009
By Lynn Roberts

Fixing you into a lazy haze-filled melancholy from the get go, Draw Me Stories bring their second album of folk infused ambience, this time with added roots. Following on from their debut The Plugged Sessions, the Welsh troupe unplug and play with their voices and more instrumentation to create a delicious album full of...
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FFS Ones to watch: Draw Me Stories

29 April 2009
By Lynn Roberts

“There’s a difference between a Welsh band and a Wales-based band,” says Draw Me Stories singer, Carl Hodgetts. “Wales can be a bit insular and much of the music that comes out of here is pigeonholed. People are often surprised that we’re not Welsh.”
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