With this album, import from the Emerald Isle comes perhaps the currently most high-profile Irish singer songwriter to us to Germany. Damien Dempsey may be an unassuming person, but his voice is the best and saddest of his generation. Dempsey has a career as an amateur boxer behind and still has a soul that leaves an open heart. The gentle giant they call it in Ireland, where he can look back on sold-out tours and two number 1 albums. What has spread not only to England. There has him Morrissey on his Attack! Taken label. And Sinead O Connor sings sometimes just a track for him. Now published under the title Sing All Our Cares Away a selection of songs from his previous albums with eleven beautiful, partly Irish folk-tinged, numbers and a bonus track. As street poet with rough edges, he writes movingly and unsentimental about life, as you can hear it rarely. Yet his texts often take turns poetic, act of growth through suffering, inward strength, self-love, of being alone and always a lot of feeling. Dempsey manages with ease to donate infinite consolation: When you feel bad ... you are not on your own, its all good and Anywhere you go my friend, I'll be with you are just a few examples.. His voice here has a width and incredible forcefulness that shoots up deep into my heart. Thus Damien Dempsey stands out from a crowd dreamy song poets and this album is a must.
