Adrian Crowley, recently awarded Ireland’s Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, conveys a morose and morbid introspection, with icy strings, organ chords and mournful harmonium creating beautiful and ghostly compositions. He is joined by Sara Lowes & Dom Coyote. As its emotive title may suggest, Adrian Crowley’s fifth album, Season of the Sparks is one of bristling, tactile atmospheres. It represents a point, after ten years of recording music, where his words, his music and the influence of his collaborators all meet in a perfect, joyous place. Crowley’s career is best defined by his album-work. His specific craft is the cohesive flow, the collection, the beginning, middle and end. More than just a writer of songs, he etches out journeys, where each character, story or incident within his songs feels like a stepping-stone to the next character, story or incident. Season of the Sparks is like the best type of short story book where each tale seems magically connected to the rest. Maybe it’s the striking sense of incandescence that unites all these particular stories/songs. Moving away from the sea/water themed imagery of his previous record, the Choice Music Prize nominated Long Distance Swimmer, his latest album is flush with Arcadian detail; birds and bees, lush vines, honeycombs, kindling, and dreaming horses. It might bring to mind Bill Callahan at his brightest, or an excerpt from one of John McGahern’s consumed passages on the buzz of rural life. ...... Tickets Friday 30th April Whitechapel Gallery, London Tickets £7.00 http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/ Show 7.00pm