Product Description

All Music Guide calls it: "A striking collection of hushed and autumnal indie pop bedroom songs that reside on the hi-fi end of the lo-fi spectrum." Veneer is the debut album by Swedish-born minstrel José González…already a certified quiet-is-the-new-loud legend in his native Sweden. Who needs bells and whistles (outside of a forlorn trumpet and some subliminal percussion) when songs are this strong and the voice is this perfect? When all that you need to hold an audience in blissful rapture is what you can balance on a barstool? Jose’s sensual, sensitive, powerful vocals and supernaturally gifted guitar playing truly recalls artists like Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Hayden, and Mark Kozelek. He’s earned the accolades by writing incredible songs and staying true to his heart, keeping the songs barebones simple.

The José González song "Crosses" was featured on the season finale of The OC.

Track Listing

1. Slow moves
2. Remain
3. Lovestain
4. Heartbeats
5. Crosses
6. Deadweight on velveteen
7. All you deliverw
8. Stay in the shade
9. Hints
10. Save your day
11. Broken arrows

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #538 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: CD

Customer Reviews

Sheer Brilliance
Sheer brilliance, flowing against the tide of pop tripe the continualy fills the airways.
If your a fan of acoustic guitar music, buy this album. Scrap that just buy this album, the only complaint you'll have is ...damn it's finished. At a shade over 30 min's it's short by modern standards.
But don't feel short changed as every track is shimmering with mesmerizing beauty.
The better your system the more wonderful detail you can extract.
Jose plays with a passion that you can feel with each strum.
He may not have earth shattering vocals, but they blend seemlessly and become part of of the whole experience - John Martin fans will appreciate this.
The album has a certain quality that can make you loose yourself in distant thoughts, positive thoughts, uplifting thoughts that transpires into hope that better things will happen, we will as a race move in the right direction, the same hope that planet earth series can give.
His second album In our Nature is good but if your wondering which to buy this is the one.
Run a bath turn it up sit back and enjoy.

SUPERB
I bought this album a good while ago now. I sourced it after hearing a part of it in a TV ad. I thought mmm....I like that piece of music so I bought it and hoped the rest of the CD would be just as good. I wasn't disappointed, this is the most fantastic music I've heard in a long time. He is brilliant! I couldn't stop playing it much to my husbands chagrin.
Every time I went for a shower or was busy in the kitchen or doing housework or in the car, it literally went everywhere with me.
I mentioned it to my neice who was 23 and told her she probably wouldn't like it. She played it and loved it on first hearing and then couldn't stop playing it either. So it suits all ages as well, as I'm a fifty something. I love it and want more. Where has he gone???? Thoroughly Brilliant 20 stars if I could. If you're thinking about it, go get it.

Drifting..............
If you have been captivated by any one of Jose Gonzalez's songs, then you will immediately fall in love with this album.
Suffused with his trademark lilting vocal and rhythmic - almost hypnotic - guitar accompaniment, this album draws you in from the very start.
Gonzalez takes you on a seamless journey - each song blending into and out of the last until the album ends and there's no option but to start all over again.
Gonzalez somehow manages a miracle with a series of simple vocal and guitar arrangements that rise well above the normal folk or acoustic alternative fare.
This album is truly remarkable and comes highly recommended by Ernest the Goose.