Album: James Vincent McMorrow, Early in the Morning (Believe Digital)

Sunday 27 March 2011 02:00 BST

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JVM is an Irish singer-songwriter who might, in other times, have found himself compared to Ray LaMontagne. That his debut is shrouded in vaporous vocals tells us everything about the here and now and little about him. Gets better as such artifice slips, though. Simmy Richman

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