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"I try to write as if it's forever," says Lyndon Morgans, alias Welsh singer-songwriter Songdog. The Welsh native has certainly achieved this artistic objective on his seventh album, the sublime Joy Street. While the eleven tracks here retain what NME once described as "glacier-paced folk noir", the collection augments Songdog's melancholic majesty with a radio-friendly buoyancy. The whole thing is beautifully blended by renowned producer Nigel Stonier, who has previously worked with Fairport Covention, Joan Baez and Thea Gilmore. And indeed Gilmore appears as a backing vocalist on four songs.