As its title suggests, Hand Built By Robots contains acoustic music for the digital age: Faulkner croons in a voice shaped by years spent listening to Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Tom Waits and plays guitar with a distinctive tap-pick-and-strum technique that allows him to use the instrument as guitar, bass and drums all at once. Call it folk-pop for the future, and get ready to hear quite a lot of it as Faulkner goes about spreading his success to these shores.
Newton's musicianship has proven very successful to date. "Hand Built By Robots" has won over the UK, climbing to #1 on the charts soon after bursting into the scene in early 2007. The album is now available everywhere in the US.
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Newton's material ranges from catchy pop ballads like "Dream Catch Me"
Listen to "Dream Catch Me"
To the more complex guitar wizardry of "I Need Something"
Listen to "I Need Something"
To unique interpretations of completely different musical genres such as this cover of Massive Attack's "Teardrop"
Listen to "Teardrop"
And the fan favorite, a humorous take on Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"...
Watch "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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