OK so when this first started playing I thought it was going be similar to Jason Mraz or something awfully similar but thankfully it’s extremely far from that.

Alan Pownall’s Colourful Day is so beautiful and as an album sampler it’s done a great job in getting me excited to hear the whole thing. It’s a seriously, seriously gentle song but in no means soppy or cliche.

There are definitely too many commercialised, guitar-wielding male singer/songwriters out there at the moment. Blunt, Morrison, Mraz and Powter (to name a few) make the world we live in that extra little bit more painful but people like Pownall and Josh Garrels give some glimmer of light that there still is hope.

Alan Pownall – Colourful Day

Alan Pownall – Clara (Melechtric Remix) - download

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He’s playing a string of live gigs at Pure Groove Records this month as well as a gig and the Royal Albert Hall.

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