Pumajaw
PUMAJAW are producer/multi-instrumentalist John Wills (ex-Loop) and songwriter/chanteuse Pinkie Maclure. A charismatic live act since 2000, they have toured the UK, Europe, Russia and the US, earning loyal fans who are seduced by their combination of great songwriting with inventive, atmospheric arrangements. The newly-completed sixth album, due out early in 2011, moves away from alt-folk influences and burns with a new, electrical intensity.
‘Wills is a highly accomplished player and his use of loops and samples creates a wall of sound that a full-blown band might struggle to craft. Sometimes growling, other times hauntingly angelic, Maclure’s voice is always utterly engaging and the way she handles the concertina would make the knees of grown men tremble’ (David Prater The Herald ****)
‘Pumajaw links Loop’s hypnotics with trance-like beats, held together by Maclure’s disarmingly seductive voice’ (Uncut ****)
‘The bewitching Pumajaw are one of the Scottish music scene’s most exotic animals,’ (Fiona Shepherd ,The Scotsman ****)
’ Timeless, extraordinary……… the product of a potent musical chemistry’ (Mike Barnes, THE WIRE)
The Scottish songstress with the disarmingly beautiful voice – a kind of anglophone Juliette Gréco — is back with this superb set. But the songwriting style is redolent with folk and jazz, as well as industrial harshness. John Wills’ eerie production and covers of songs by David Lynch and Tom Waits let you know she is in touch with her dark side, and on tracks such as Frozen in Sleep she positively bewitches with her haunting sincerity. (Kevin Le Gendre, Marie Claire)
