Clancy

Clancy EP

(Catchy Go Go)

THIS posthumously released four-track EP from the hugely gifted Paul Clancy is gorgeously haunting and hard to listen to without being gently reminded of the 35-year-old singer’s untimely passing in February 2010.

The four tracks here are poised and intimate and it really is impossible not be moved by the achingly fragile sentiment of these heartbreakingly poignant ballads. Opening with a naked and captivating version of Beyonce’s stomping hit ‘Halo’, this track serves as a heartfelt and elegiac ode to the young Irish troubadour and a shining example of his exemplary talent. ‘To The Even Flow’, ‘For Wanting You’ and ‘The Town Where I’m From’ are plaintive ballads filled with a mixture of hope and resignation.  There’s a warmth and insular beauty to Clancy’s music that is now, sadly, prophetically embroidered with his premature end. But rather than feeling morose or mournful, this new EP affords us a golden opportunity to celebrate and remember the life and music of a truly great Irish talent taken way before his time.