Sleeping on Roads

Time Out has called Neil Halstead "one of Britain's greatest songwriters"; NME said he wrote "the kind of honest, heartfelt love songs men are too scared or too cool to write these days". The six albums he has made - three apiece with Slowdive and Mojave 3 - have been universally hailed as "sublime". Two years in the making, Sleeping On Roads is the singer-writer-guitar player's debut solo record.

Sleeping On Roads retains Halstead's trademark mix of exquisite, quasi-folk melodies and fragile, intimate vocals - he's one of the very few singer-writers who actually deserves the Nick Drake comparisons - but this time they're intricately wedded to gently swaying rhythms and an atmospheric groove. "With this record in many ways I was trying to get away from song structures a little bit in terms of it being just verses and choruses. I was more interested in the way the record *sounded*."