Unhand Me, You Fiend!

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Unhand Me, You Fiend!
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Studio album by
David Cloyd
ReleasedJanuary 20, 2009
Genre rock music
Label ECR Music Group
Producer David Cloyd, Blake Morgan
David Cloyd chronology
Unhand Me, You Fiend!
(2009)		 I Could Disappear
(2010)

Unhand Me, You Fiend! is the debut album of singer-songwriter David Cloyd. It was released on January 20, 2009, on Engine Company Records (ECR Music Group).

David Cloyd American singer-songwriter and music producer

David Cloyd is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and music engineer. After playing for a decade in Brooklyn, New York in the indie rock scene, he was signed to ECR Music Group in 2008. He released his debut album as a singer-songwriter with Unhand Me, You Fiend! in 2009. The album peaked at #1 on eMusic's Album Charts, and according to a review, "took the indie rock scene by storm." His second album, I Could Disappear, included solo versions of his debut album, with Cloyd on vocals, piano, and guitar. Cloyd released a cover of Paul McCartney's 1971 song "Dear Boy" in September 2011. As of 2012, he is Executive Vice President of Creative Operations at ECR Music Group.

Contents

Production

Cloyd composed, performed, and engineered all tracks on the LP, and co-produced the album with Blake Morgan. Morgan mixed and edited, and Phil "Butcher Bros." Nicolo mastered the album [1] at Studio 4 in Philadelphia. [2] The album cover is a photo taken by Cloyd, [1] and the album contains audio liner notes as bonus tracks. [3] Cloyd also included a cover of Radiohead's "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" from In Rainbows as a bonus track. [3]

Blake Morgan is an American musician, singer-songwriter, music producer, and record label owner, and activist based in New York City. After releasing the alternative rock solo album Anger's Candy (1997) on Phil Ramone's N2K Sony/Red label, he began producing music independently and founded the label Engine Company Records in 2002, which in 2012 became ECR Music Group. He helps produce all music released by the label, which has included artists such as James McCartney, Janita, Mike Errico, Patti Rothberg, Lesley Gore, David Cloyd and Melissa Giges. His albums Anger's Candy, Burning Daylight,Silencer, and Diamonds in the Dark were positively received.

Philadelphia Largest city in Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, known colloquially as Philly, is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2018 census-estimated population of 1,584,138. Since 1854, the city has had the same geographic boundaries as Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest U.S. metropolitan statistical area, with over 6 million residents as of 2017. Philadelphia is also the economic and cultural anchor of the greater Delaware Valley, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within the Northeast megalopolis. The Delaware Valley's population of 7.2 million ranks it as the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon-on-Thames in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994.

Reception

Following its release worldwide, the album peaked at #1 on eMusic's Album Charts. [2] According to another review, the album "took the indie rock scene by storm." [4] His vocals on the album were compared to David Berkeley and Jeff Buckley. [3] According to one review, Cloyd "uses this album to convey the struggles of everyday life." [3]

eMusic organization

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. In exchange for a monthly subscription eMusic users can download a fixed number of tracks to their MP3 players per month. eMusic was established in 1998, is headquartered in New York City with an office in London, and is owned by TriPlay.

David Berkeley songwriter

David Berkeley,, is an American singer and songwriter.

Reviews

According to eMusic, "Having recently departed New York City for Buffalo, you can almost hear the isolation in David Cloyd's debut. Unhand Me, You Fiend! jumps between folky, Jeff Buckley-esque ballads, minor-key raucous indie-guitar workouts and, errr, a Radiohead cover (that's actually quite great!). It seems the work of a single, quirky mind with a lot of time on its hands — and it's a joy to listen to." [5]

Jeff Buckley American singer, guitarist and songwriter

Jeffrey Scott Buckley, raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father Tim Buckley's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.

Melodic.net gave it 4/4 stars and wrote "New talent David Cloyd...offers a stylish and at times complex pop journey. With floating melodies built with acoustic elements and technical details, I have now another album when I listen to contemporary pop at its very best. If you like cool pop in a slightly odd and very personal style, this is a must album." [6]

Track listing

  1. "Sold Out Bargain"
  2. "Never Run"
  3. "Come Out Wherever You Are"
  4. "She Asks Me"
  5. "We're Coming For You Anyway"
  6. "Give Your Enemies A Chance To Rest"
  7. "The Wire"
  8. "The First Sign"
  9. "Unhand Me, You Fiend!"
  10. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (Cover, Digital Bonus Track)
  11. Audio Liner Notes and Commentary (Digital Bonus Track)

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References

  1. 1 2 "David Cloyd: Unhand Me, You Fiend!". Allmusic. January 20, 2009. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  2. 1 2 "David Cloyd". Engine Company Records. Archived from the original on 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Randall, Andrew (May 2, 2009). "Unhand Me, You Fiend!". TheCelebrityCafe.com. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. ↑ McElhaney, Carla (March 7, 2010). "An Interview with David Cloyd". CarlaMcElhaney.com. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  5. ↑ Raitt, Amelia (January 5, 2009). "David Cloyd, Unhand Me, You Fiend!". eMusic . Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  6. ↑ Wippsson, Johan (2009). "David Cloyd: Fiend Review". Melodic.net . Retrieved 2011-12-28.
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