{"id":1911,"date":"2014-02-21T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:00:27","slug":"fitzsimmons-unleashes-lions-his-latest-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/21\/fitzsimmons-unleashes-lions-his-latest-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzsimmons unleashes &#034;Lions&#034;, his latest album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Fitzsimmons released his brand new album &#8220;Lions&#8221; on February 18. Our reporter David Gazet returns a little unimpressed.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Illinois based indie-folk artist Fitzsimmons, a former psychotherapist who is known for his hypnotic acoustic melodies, first made a name for himself with <em>Please Don\u2019t Go <\/em>and<em> Passion<\/em>, both appeared on hit TV show Grey\u2019s Anatomy.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1937\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WF-Lions-Color-Photo-on-steps-with-guitar-Photo-Credit-Erin-Brown.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1937\" alt=\"William Fitzsimmons. Photo courtesy of Erin Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WF-Lions-Color-Photo-on-steps-with-guitar-Photo-Credit-Erin-Brown-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1937\" alt=\"William Fitzsimmons. Photo courtesy of Erin Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WF-Lions-Color-Photo-on-steps-with-guitar-Photo-Credit-Erin-Brown-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> William Fitzsimmons. Photo courtesy of Erin Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBut, like many artists whose songs are cherry-picked for prime time stardom, Fitzsimmons\u2019 has since languished in relative obscurity, which, as far as we can tell is where he\u2019s happiest.<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t just the beard that invites comparisons to artists like notoriously reclusive hermit Keaton Henson, or Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.<br \/>\nFitzsimmons\u2019 whispery voice and melancholic lyrics are the bread and butter of many of the best indie artists, and there is some originality.<br \/>\n<em>Speak<\/em>\u2019s combination of piano accompaniment with synthesisers is brilliant- while it lasts. But other experiments, such as the use of percussion in <em>Took, <\/em>fall completely flat.<br \/>\nInstead it ended up sounding like elevator music straining to be profound than the accomplished guitar tracks Fitzsimmons is capable of creating.<br \/>\nBut there is little entirely ground-breaking or different about <em>Lions<\/em> and Fitzsimmons&#8217; style has barely changed since his first release <em>Until When We Were Ghosts<\/em> (2005).<br \/>\nLong-term fans will doubtless find much to love but <em>Lions<\/em> is a distinctly unoriginal entry to the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Fitzsimmons released his brand new album &#8220;Lions&#8221; on February 18. Our reporter David Gazet returns a little unimpressed. The Illinois based indie-folk artist Fitzsimmons, a former psychotherapist who is known for his hypnotic acoustic melodies, first made a name for himself with Please Don\u2019t Go and Passion, both appeared on hit TV show Grey\u2019s Anatomy. But, like many artists whose songs are cherry-picked for prime time stardom, Fitzsimmons\u2019 has since languished in relative obscurity, which, as far as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42],"tags":[1898,1899,1900,1901],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-longer-reads","category-music","tag-indie","tag-lions","tag-until-when-we-were-ghosts","tag-william-fitzsimmons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fitzsimmons unleashes &#034;Lions&#034;, his latest album - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/21\/fitzsimmons-unleashes-lions-his-latest-album\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fitzsimmons unleashes &#034;Lions&#034;, his latest album - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"William Fitzsimmons released his brand new album &#8220;Lions&#8221; on February 18. 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