Prospect Park

On James William Hindle's new full-length album Prospect Park, you can almost hear the artist coming-of-age; there's of evidence of both introspection and reckoning. As on his acclaimed debut album, wistful, delicately strummed melodies are strewn with hope and acoustic longing, but on Prospect Park, there's also the definite sound of a maturity found. You can expect nothing less than sheer loveliness and loneliness from this British folk-pop balladeer. Aficionados of fine-crafted songs might detect a faint Elephant-6-esque thread running through the songs, as Hindle is ably backed up on these proceedings by members of The Essex Green, The Ladybug Transistor, Sunshine Fix, and Aden.