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Kevin Mark Trail

Just Living

EMI

Album description

Thrust into the spotlight through his vocals on the music of The Streets' Mike Skinner (those are Kevin's vocals you can hear on The Streets' boisterous skank "Let's Push Things Forward", and on "Same Old Show"), Kevin Mark Trail produces a sound that is as warm, idiosyncratic, charming and full of empathy as its maker.

It goes far beyond the narrow palette of urban music concerns - girls, gold, parties – and into an honest, captivating and emotionally articulate amalgam of soul, reggae and DIY garage that sounds like a lot, but like nothing else simultaneously.

Like his contemporary and sometime collaborator Mike Skinner, Trail's music is at once a new sound of the suburbs, but more importantly an intimate reflection of a kid brought up between the frequencies of US R&B and Jamaican reggae in an auditory zone inhabited by London's unique pirate vibrations.

He has been garnering respect and plaudits across the board. He's also played as support to the likes of NERD and Massive Attack.