The Dawn Chorus debut album ‘The Big Adventure’ has been voted number 7 in Planet Sound’s Top 50 Albums Of 2008.

If they were from America rather than Portsmouth, there would doubtless be a bigger fuss around this country-rock.

Don’t let their urban background fool you into thinking they’re just playing at the genre, though. Here were apparently pastoral, sweet tunes that soon swelled into erudite fears about death, with stirring playing genuinely worthy of Neil Young…