When Dallas Green doesn't act together with Canadian post-hardkorshchikami Alexisonfire, he composes and sings to friends surprising on beauty and melancholiness of a song. Generally he always was engaged in it - still before began to play more or less heavy music as a part of group. Probably, sensual and frank party of Dallas and would remain for us the unknown person for long time if the English fan of group one fine day hasn't caught the house records which have departured in the Internet. It has placed them on a page in myspace. com and when the quantity of "friends" has passed for twelve thousand, and unpublished songs were sent already worldwide, Mr. Green at last has made happy many, having let out in November, 2005 debut solo work under name Sometimes. In pseudonym City And Colour as it is simple to guess, the name of the musician – Dallas and Green is concealed.

That at once amazes from the first listening so it is simplicity and at the same time illusive pressure of each composition. The combination of clever, deep texts, an acoustic guitar and others, hardly audible, tools creates smart atmosphere of summer night when you in loneliness reflect on life and reflect on much. Like ‘ Like Knives’ where sounds of the easy piano and an imperceptible violoncello only give to dramatic character, it would be desirable to listen the song again and again.

Guitarist Alexisonfire opens before us a soul in the songs, he searches, he worries. Such it is difficult to forge, it is felt at once. Certainly, creativity of Dallas and its group – two different things Hide review