The Fat Angel Sings

A Tom Waits comparison is the cross to bear for every male singer-songwriter with a deep baritone, so Barns Courtney might as well get used to that. In reality, this piano ballad hovers somewhere between Waits, Tom O’Dell and Carl Barat’s more tender moments (the latter perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise, seeing as Barns and he have written together). Anyway, it’s very pretty and with supports sets with The Libertines and Ed Sheeran behind him, and one with The Who coming up. you sense he won’t be ‘new’ that much longer.