Sunday music share: Ron Sexsmith, "Exit Strategy of the Soul"

I'm not a big fan of what I've taken to calling nuevo-soul. Performers like Martin Sexton leave me cold (and poor Martin especially. His voice crawls under my skin in the worst nails-on-a-chalkboard way). I don't know why, it just doesn't move me. To use a word I've stolen from dissonant_dream, it's beige. I feel nothing when I listen to it and therefore I own very little of it.

The two exceptions seem to be Ray LaMontagne and Ron Sexsmith. And I only like Ray's darker, echoier sound; I always skip the radio cut from his most recent album. Always. But Ron is another story.

The first time I heard Ron Sexsmith's music, I wasn't even listening to Ron Sexsmith. Guy Pearce performed four of his songs on the soundtrack to A Slipping Down Life, a soundtrack which I adored. And then late last year, I heard "Brandy Alexander" on a Paste compilation, and that's when I knew I had to have this disc. I haven't even listened to it the whole way through yet, but I thought some of you might enjoy it as well. For fans of Martin Sexton, Ray LaMontagne, Steve Carlson, Ryan Adams, and (to an extent) Rufus Wainwright.

Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy of the Soul (yousendit zip file)

Damn, I was going to upload bonus Guy Pearce sings RS, but yousendit is refusing to work right now. So, stay tuned for that I guess.

ETA: Guy Pearce singing Ron Sexsmith:

One Grey Morning
You Alone
Dirty Windows
In This Love