Tom Carter knows music. More importantly, he has a vast intelligence on what it means to be an artist in this that is a new era. Menhirs of Er Grah is only one of his many monikers and projects he has found himself developing throughout the underworld of the city of London. Seeming to be the first of Carter’s acoustic sessions, Different World brings a warm and pleasant collection of sad sad blues.

“My Orchard Fire” begins with guitar samplings similar to Johnny Cash, but the tone quickly slows down to something completely original and enlightening. And “Red Roses” is so soft that your ears will feel fragile after only one listen. But emotions flicker on and off, up and down, throughout the charismatic and purely grounded, 60′s inspired essence of Different World.

Down tempo folk usually comes off as a simple task. An easy way out if you must. But this is an album that begs to differ. Carter’s rendezvous with misery as well as joy is on glass display to the world. Few acoustic strumming fools can get away with what he does. While wearing so many hats in the indie world, he has found the time to be Menhirs of Er Grah as the forefront of his empire. Which is an eloquently based setting where no pretentious riddle hat is required. Kick your feet up to this one, and prepare to live, laugh, strum.

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