Album Review: Sam Duckworth - Amazing Grace

Don’t be put off by the wheat ears blowin’ in the wind opening Amazing Grace with an unfortunate country music twang.

The second ‘solo in name’ album from former Get Cape Wear Cape Fly-boy Sam Duckworth promptly floats off to more comforting, daydreamy states and is much better for it. Once past El Loco, Amazing Grace meanders in a folk-poppy vibe similar to Sufjan Stevens, Belle & Sebastian and (one hit wonders) Nizlopi where the stories in The Geldermalsen Cargo and Property Pages are read from crunchy handwritten diaries found in a musty attic.