AWKWARD i - I Really Should Whisper + Everything On Wheels

When AWKWARD was still awkward, they released two acclaimed albums: 2009's I Really Should Whisper and 2011's Everything On Wheels . These have now been brought together on a double album in an exclusive tunnel sleeve.

OOR wrote at the time:

“It's always pretended that only Americans are good (and authentic) at indie folk, but I Really Should Whisper by the Dutch awkward i can be placed in the same league as Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and The Low Anthem without any embarrassment.”

“ The second album Everything On Wheels , is again full of strong melodies and diversely colored songs. There is no more whispering. And that's a good thing, every note of Everything On Wheels may be heard.”

AWKWARD i is the more song-oriented pseudonym of composer and songwriter Djurre de Haan. De Haan has three albums on his resume as AWKWARD i: debut I Really Should Whisper is a beautiful lo-fi listening album with many exciting layers. Successor Everything On Wheels is more spontaneously played but for the first time shows off a full band sound. On the third long player KYD, De Haan applies a combination of the two methods: a musical marriage between the sonorous pop arrangement and the playful sound experiment. His subtle lyrics whimsically pave a path between self-mockery, absurdity and melancholy.