Setting the tone with an elegant and strummed, acoustic guitar expanding into a luscious retro guitar-pop energy, Martyn Scott opens Lazy Days And Lullabies with poetic prowess as he shares the introspective prose, “Have you ever felt like all the colours you’ve ever seen, have drained, and all that remains now is plain scenery, you’re just gonna have to struggle through like me, until the spectrum splits and the colour’s back in you…”
We are immediately enthralled by the charisma and depth that Martyn Scott shares with his voice; and his descriptive and narrative-based genre of song writing is exquisite.
Lazy Days And Lullabies takes us on a journey, allowing us to self-reflect, as Martyn Scott delivers a distinguishable vocal timbre which also holds a sense of nostalgia, in line with the 60s-adjacent sonic design of the opus. The harmonies are out of this world, whilst the guitar solo sends us astral.
We learn that Martyn Scott was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and started playing Rock n Roll in working men’s clubs aged seventeen and progressed to touring up and down the country with bands, one of which got the opportunity to support The Bootleg Beatles at the Echo Arena in Liverpool in front of an audience of 9,000!
His song writing is influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Oasis, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and 90s Brit Pop, which we can feel come through in the composition, although it is clear that Martyn Scott is creating a universe of his own.
Martyn puts the song first, and comments, “if it doesn’t stand up on its own, sung with just an acoustic guitar, then it’s not worth trying to prop it up through production. It will always fall short.”
We have added Lazy Days And Lullabies to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream Martyn Scott‘s wider discography including Into Love and Moving Out.