Beaumont

The immaculate, fragile music of Beaumont evolved from the twee pop of Reading, England’s Blueboy, among the acts in the celebrated Sarah Information label. Keith Girdler (vocals) and Paul Stewart (guitars, bass, drums, percussion, keyboards) had been the core associates of Blueboy, a music group they produced in the first ’90s following the demise of Feverfew. Blueboy documented three albums within the ’90s — If Wants Had been Horses, Unisex, and THE LENDER of Britain — that netted stellar testimonials as well as the devotion of the devoted cult. The group split in 1998. Girdler and Stewart reunited as Arabesque and in 2000, they released the mood-spinning THAT IS…Beaumont seeing that Beaumont. Also comprising Lorraine Carrol (vocals), Dick Preece (keyboards), Leigh Saunders (trumpet, keyboards), and two Blueboy veterans — Martin Rose (drums, percussion) and Cath Close (vocals) — Beaumont ventured into jazz and Baroque compositions. As with the task of Belle and Sebastian, THAT IS…Beaumont combined wistful adolescent poetry with noiseless, delicately crafted music.