John Canning Yates - The Quiet Portraits

How do you follow up a
work described in the Independent on Sunday as “the best debut album since Marquee Moon”? That’s the
quesXon facing singer-songwriter John Canning Yates, twenty years on from the criXcally acclaimed ‘The First Album’ by his band Ella Guru.
‘The Quiet Portraits’ will appeal to anyone who loves the beauXful melodic soundscapes woven by Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, and Tom Waits, while Yates’s unique vocals evoke the emoXonal fragility and compelling narraXve of Neil Young, Paul Buchanan, Mark Linkous and EllioR Smith.
Mastered by Jason Mitchell (PJ Harvey, Robert Forster), and featuring guest contribuXons from pedal steel maestro BJ Cole and friend and mulX-instrumentalist Andy Frizell (Kevin Ayers, Wizards of Twiddly), those dedicated followers of Ella Guru who stayed the path will find their paXence very well rewarded. ‘The Quiet Portraits’ is a remarkable achievement from an unassuming, yet hugely talented arXst.