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Until the Traffic Stops | 
| Artist: Alex Cornish
Label: Bellevue
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 13345
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5024545470727
ASIN: B000TZGQEU
Release Date: October 1, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Until The Traffic Stops | | • | Counting Chimney Pots | | • | Same Ride Same Way | | • | My Word What A Mess | | • | The Trouble I Am | | • | Scotland The Brave | | • | Lights On | | • | This One's For You | | • | Beginning Middle Or End | | • | Untied |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Brilliant debut album that deserves more support and airtime October 31, 2008
I saw Alex supporting Tom McRae (another hugely misunderstood and under-rated British singer-songwriter talent...) and thought he was ace, so I went and saw a headline gig a couple of weeks later. The guy is a star.
As a debut album recorded in a spare bedroom, this is a work of art. There are no fillers, and the mixing and production quality is perfect. 'Scotland the Brave' is one of my favourite tracks, but it shares this mantle with most of the other tracks on this album. The title track 'Until the Traffic Stops' is beautifully written, and is written in response to a sad incident. The video for this track is worth taking a look at. It's simple and effective.
Take a look on Alex's myspace page and listen to a couple of the tunes. Then buy the album. Share it with a friend and ask them to buy it too.
The album is currently being prepared for re-release in 2009, and it deserves to be very successful. Alex is a nice bloke and doesn't get the credit his talent deserves. If the great British public would just give this a listen instead of spending time on 'reality TV', false celebrity and short-shelf life pop acts, the world would be a better place.
More power to your creative elbow Mr.Cornish.
Onwards.
A sleeper album destined for rerelease March 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is surely going to be one of those albums that is rereleased when public appreciation reaches critical mass. We have some cracking tunes here, all set against beautiful, multi-textured instrumentation. The lyrics aren't bad either. Frankly, this album passes rusty water over the bog-standard indie- T-shirt nonsense we have to suffer on a daily basis. Alex Cornish is very talented singer-songwriter, whose time must come.
A Fine Debut March 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
ALEX CORNISH Until The Traffic Stops
Bellevue Records
I've been intending to write my review of this album for months. The fact that I have not done so is not from lack of interest. Quite the contrary is the actual case. To be honest my wife found this debut CD from Edinburgh based singer songwriter Alex Cornish and it has proved to be a family favourite ever since. In attempting to describe what you will find within the ten tracks I have to say there is an atmosphere that, just at times, makes you think of Coldplay, Keane, Rufus Wainwright and perhaps a little Tom Baxter. However Alex has not cloned the sound of these artists, this is very much his creation. The album opens with the title track and you are captured and intrigued by a French Horn and string arrangement that is haunting and sets the mood for the album. When the vocals cut in at 1'40" followed by the big, but never over the top production, you will understand why I have put Alex up with the others. Several tracks are fairly lengthy 'Same Ride Same Way', 'The Trouble I Am' and the wonderful closer 'Untied' for example however you do not get the idea that they're long just for the sake of it. There is a definite structure to these songs. Many are observational; not perhaps your usual clutch of love songs and Alex delivers them like a man on a passionate mission to engage you in his ideas and music. The whole package works very well indeed.
Graeme Scott
Cornish cream ! February 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I came to this through the BBC series 'Wainwright's Walks'. I found the incidental music quite alluring in a misty ,ambient, chill-out sort of way.
Checking out the composer Alex Cornish...I found myself on his web page and MySpace page where four rather fine tracks were waiting for me.
Taking a chance on an album by a 23 year old Edinburgh Indie musician who had made 'When the traffic stops' in his bedroom....very punk!...I am delighted to say that despite it not sounding one iota like the Wainwright music. It is nevertheless a work of quality.
With ten vocal tracks rather than instrumentals on the album.I have to say that 'traffic' sounds so much like a lost Coldplay album. Alex even sounds like Chris Martin. The final 8 minute track 'Untied' is pure Coldplay at their anthemic best.
If there's any fault with the album it lies with it's total re-invention of a standard musical genre rather than an experimental journey by a composer looking to plough his own furrow.
Until then, Alex at least providies us with a work of substance and entertainment.
A fine start to a young songwriting career.
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