Artist description Humanoid

Music Style Singer-songwriter, folk, jazz, latinish

Musical Influences In no particular order: Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Cole Porter, Robert Wyatt, Jacques Brel, Peter Blegvad, Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, XTC, Brian Eno,

Similar Artists Nick Drake, Tom Jobim

Group Members Me. It would be less effective if I contained more than one person. And more than a trifle Fortean Times.

Instruments Classical Guitar and voice, mainly. But also electric guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, double bass. Whatever.

Albums Plucked

Press Reviews John['s] music is truly charming, sort of a cheerier Nick Drake. Really good stuff.- John Voorhees; Chalkheads station, MP3.com station ••• English Singer-Songwriter John Peacock plays a sophisticated brand of BossaNova and jazz-inflected folk. His voice has a nice, disaffected, morose edge.- Chris S; Listen.com ••• [L]yrics are insanely perceptive/creative. [A] bit deceptive here with the soothing music & delivery wrapped around lyrics that are pretty much an invitation to the listener to uncover their brain and start thinking.[A] knack for presenting serious/intense information in a format that is so laid back, so calm that it slips into the cracks of people's brains before they know it.- Pamela Zero; Diva ••• As the title suggests, this is very much a nylon-string guitar oriented album - indeed, there's nothing else here save his world-weary, slightly bewildered vocals ... Some sound like classics that have lain undiscovered for decades; on "Deja Vu', with its nagging bassline, the Latin rhythms of Joao Gilberto are reproduced in soft, English pastels that seem to blur round the edges into a rainy landscape. The rhythmic fluctations of 'The Sea' ... subtly reproduce the pull and counter pull of the tides until, after a moment's suspense, the song explodes into the unexpected eloquence of scat-singing. Interspersed between the songs are several brief, stylish instrumentals which show just what a clever plucker Peacock can be when he wants to. The last of these, 'Embers', provides an appropriate afterword to the gentle ragtime of the album's final song, 'Twilight'. - C.J. Schόler (on Plucked), Acoustic Underground

Location London, England - United Kingdom

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