Golden Embers

Golden EmbersFive new songs recorded in Toronto and intended to hold fans over until September, when Doug Paisley will release the follow up to 2010's critically acclaimed Constant Companion. If you slept on that album, then we're sorry, but use this affodably priced EP as an excuse to acquaint yourself with one of the finest working songwriters, who Time Out NY called "the purest voice to come down the pike in ages."

guitarist Paul Sukeena (Spacin')

The glorious opener “Are You Here For The Festival” – punctuated by a pair of violins – came to him while working in the garden

He sampled it

Now I sing some of these songs to my daughter

Long Island is alive and involving

There's a fresh economy involved here

“And it worked on her

I was looking for anything

Richard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness – is one of the best-kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic canon: an instrumental masterpiece disguised as a movie soundtrack

The Other Years is their debut album

Then died not long after

incantations and half-spells