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Awkward Ballads For The Easily-Pleased - CD

£7.95 / $15.50

This is Tom Milsom's first full CD Album with thirteen original and uniquely memorable tracks showing a wide range of musical and lyrical variety. All songs were written, orchestrated, performed and recorded by Tom himself. This product is the physical CD sent to you by post.

The orginal run of 50 personalised CDs was completely sold out within 2 days so we have now got a professional studio and replication company to digitally re-master it to make everything perfect and produce a larger batch of CD's for us.

The new version has the same trracks, but sharpened up a bit, plus full colour printed CD and case plus a 12-page full-colour booklet of artwork and information from Tom plus all the lyrics for the songs - Enjoy!

You can also order any of the songs individually as MP3 downloads by clicking on the track links to the left.
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Awkward Ballads For The Easily-Pleased - Download

£6.95 / $13.55

This is Tom Milsom's first full CD Album with thirteen original and uniquely memorable tracks showing a wide range of musical and lyrical variety. All songs were written, orchestrated, performed and recorded by Tom himself. This product is a download of all 13 tracks from the CD in a zip file.

You can also order any of the songs individually as MP3 downloads by clicking on the track links to the left.
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Why I Shouldn't Have Let You In

£0.79 / $1.54

Track 10 on Awkward Ballads for the Easily Pleased. 2:42 Track download.
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We Made A Film

£0.79 / $1.54

Track 4 on Awkward Ballads for the Easily Pleased. 3:03 Track download.
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Awkward Ballads For The Easily Pleased - Physical CD

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Awkward Ballads For The Easily-Pleased - CD Ref: ABCD
This is Tom Milsom's first full CD Album with thirteen original and uniquely memorable tracks showing a wide range of musical and lyrical variety. All songs were written, orchestrated, performed and recorded by Tom himself. This product is the physical CD sent to you by post.

The orginal run of 50 personalised CDs was completely sold out within 2 days so we have now got a professional studio and replication company to digitally re-master it to make everything perfect and produce a larger batch of CD's for us.

The new version has the same trracks, but sharpened up a bit, plus full colour printed CD and case plus a 12-page full-colour booklet of artwork and information from Tom plus all the lyrics for the songs - Enjoy!

You can also order any of the songs individually as MP3 downloads by clicking on the track links to the left.

Price: £7.95 / $15.50

Album background and Tom's comments

This is Tom's own review of the album...

Tom Milsom has written and performed a debut album that breaks all the rules, from the cheery, self-deprecating title, Awkward Ballads For The Easily Pleased, to the fact that not a single guitar was used anywhere in its production, yet somehow it all seems to hold together and end up being actually rather good.

The songs are weirdly humorous, featuring such oft-sidelined topics as hereditary disease and dead cats and often branching off into wild flights of fancy, novel lyrics and complicated rhymes that leave the listener feeling more dazed and confused than ever. (Can a song consisting mainly of the word 'meow' even make sense? Somehow Milsom manages to make it so.)

Despite being just eighteen years old, this album is full of emotional insight and clear musical proficiency almost to the point of arrogance - right from the offset, it is clearly different from any other music being made at the moment, from the first strum of the ukulele to the album's bizarre opening lyrics in Milsom's clear and oft-wavering voice (I've never eaten a lobster/because I've seen them in their prime). There are no whiny guitars, there are no angst ridden lyrics, there are no real problems or even emotions tackled in this music as such, and yet somehow it comes across as a very emotional album that will leave you feeling considerably happier than when you started.

For all its little scratches and bumps that have been left in, whether intentionally or not, as the third song says, "imperfections make you beautiful", and with Awkward Ballads, this is most certainly the case.

Tom Milsom, January 2008

Video for the New CD - Awkward Ballads

This is Tom's launch video for the new CD we have just had re-mastered and pressed.

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Video invitation to buy the initial 50 copies of the CD

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Lyrics

Lyrics for the songs are shown under the individual track sections.

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