Happy Graffiti by Armstrong CD Album also available from The Beautiful Music (Canada) and Country Mile Records (UK) (Beauty 034 / CMR 025)
The CD album is a fantastic gatefold design and only available while stocks last. THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC website is
www.thebeautifulmusic.com and Country Mile website is
www.countrymile.org
Happy Graffiti is a joint release by The Beautiful Music and Country Mile Records.
All songs written, performed, arranged and produced by Julian Pitt (Armstrong) for this album release 2022.
All songs recorded in living room, Newport, South Wales United Kingdom using an old microphone, amp, acoustic guitar, keyboard, drum machine and a 12 track digital AKAI DPS12i recorder.
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova - November 2021
Artwork and Layout by Jamie Nordstrand
TWITTER: https://twitter,com/armstrong_wales
REVIEW SOUNDBITES:
'This LP!?!??? IMMENSE' - Near Perfect Pitch
'hallmarks of top notch songwriting and instantly memorable melodies and harmonies, the new collection of 14 songs comprising 'Happy Graffiti' is outstanding' - ACROSS THE UNIVERSAL SOUNDSCAPE
'A superb album of well-crafted songs, full of melancholy. Highly recommended' Julie Fowler Colours Through The Air Music blog
(
coloursthroughtheair.blogspot.com/2022/01/armstrong-happy-graffiti.html?m=1)
'Julian Pitt from Wales might be one of the great secrets of the music world....another excellent release full of the sort of music that soundtracked the best moments of your life in earlier decades....The chords and hooks are worthy of comparison to the greats of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties, even as Pitt seems to be writing stuff that's now very nearly its own genre. Fans of Lloyd Cole, Prefab Sprout, and The Smiths might find moments here that feel familiar, but as is more often the case, Julian Pitt is also heir to a tradition we can trace further back to The Left Banke. ... the point to stress is just how consistent Pitt's talents are. I can think of few other writers out there now doing this sort of material, this well, this regularly' Glenn Francis Griffith (Review for A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed) - Full review here -
www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2022/01/walking-like-summers-day-quick-review.html
'Welsh songsmith Julian Pitt's breezy, catchy melancholic pop songs glide by on chiming acoustic guitar but it's the swoony tastefully dramatic keyboard lines that really elevate the material....' Terry Banks - BigTakeover Magazine
'whenever you listen to an Armstrong track / album there is a feeling that you are being engulfed by an intensely personal introspection and deliberation, that is allowing you a temporary sojourn into his confidence. It is a beautiful, subtle emotionality....Disinformation, When We Were Young, Happy Someone and Rock Star Rock Star feel like the cherry-picked amalgamation of the best parts of Grant McLennan, Prefab Sprout and Aztec Camera...However, the very best of the album is seen in Songbird, Eyes Open Wide and In A Memory. All these track reside in luxurious, sub mid-tempos' JANGLEPOPHUB
(full review here....
janglepophub.home.blog/2022/01/17/album-review-happy-graffiti-by-armstrong-2022-the-beautiful-music-country-mile-records/
' The long-awaited album by Julian Pitt aka Armstrong is upon us, and as you expect from a man who has melody oozing, yes, oozing from his pores, it is a tuneful delight. As I have mentioned many times in past reviews, Julian is one of the finest songwriters in the United Kingdom at the moment and has been for many years: one of music’s best kept secrets in fact......Happy Graffiti is an album of melodious delight, an album to soundtrack the days and months as winter turns to Spring and hope and loss merge into beautiful memories........Songs of love, hope and heartbreak are dispatched with some aplomb; Bacharach and David, Jim Webb, Roddy Frame, David Gates eat your breaking hearts out! These are songs that should be drifting from radio 2: ‘Eyes Wide Open’ a song of pure heart-breaking beauty, and ‘In A Memory’ a piano ballad that has me thinking of the sweetness of the Zombies mighty opus Odyssey And Oracle'... Brian Shea review in the Monolith Cocktail music review (link to full review here:
monolithcocktail.com/2022/02/04/our-daily-bread-492-mermaid-avenue-armstrong-pulco/
released January 24, 2022
All songs, written, arranged and performed by Julian Pitt using a 12 track recorder.