Dear Lara is the stage name of Glaswegian folk troubadour David Lan, a name which may one day become a household name. With the release of new EP ‘Plans’, Lan shows a fantastic amount of potential. From the opening notes of first track, ‘Deadweight’ (which sounds like a melancholy reworking of Bright Eyes’ ‘First Day Of My Life’), you get chills and know this is something special. The beauty of ‘Deadweight’, and ‘Plans’ as a whole, is that it is a […]

Categories: EP Review, Review • Tags: Acoustic, Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys, Bright Eyes, Deadweight, Dear Lara, First Day Of My Life, Folk, Glasgow, John Cooper Clarke, Plans EP, Rabbit Island