Sunset Graves

It's difficult to know where to begin with an album like Variant, so let's do the obvious thing and begin at the beginning. Andy Fosberry's debut full-length as Sunset Graves marks a radical shift in tone from his earlier material. He's already summed up that change better than I ever could: "To find my voice, I had to stop singing". Even after a productive 2012, in which he released no less than five EPs, Fosberry remained frustrated, so taking vocals out of the equation seems to have freed him of much of the baggage last year brought with it