‘Yard’ is an fantastic album but it is one of those albums that you have to listen to a few times over to start to enjoy it, I will admit on the first listen I didn’t like the album at all but something made me want to listen to it again and it happened to be a great decision as the album has totally grown on me. The album is extremely stripped down and beautifully sounding, Gary Stringer and Jack Bessant take it in turns to cover lead vocals throughout the majority of the songs on the album and they both have such stand out distinctive vocals with Gary’s standing out the most due to his vocals reminding me of the more mellow sounding Reef songs, the instruments used within the album are acoustic guitars and harmonica’s and that’s what adds to the beauty of the album.

To coincide with the release of ‘Yard’ StringerBessant are heading out on tour from the 14th July to play 5 dates in venues that they have not played in years due to the massive popularity of Reef, so the whole StringerBessant side project is helping them go back to their roots in more ways than one, the tour starts at Exeter and passes through Newquay, Falmouth, Bristol and finishes off at Swindon and I would recommend anyone to head out to one of the shows if you can because the shows promise to be intimate shows that you will never forget.

If you are still undecided about StringerBessant head to www.myspace.com/stringerbessant now and listening to the beautiful sounding ‘Hey girl’ which is available for streaming from the page.