albums of the decade - 63. David Holmes - The Holy Pictures

63. David Holmes - The Holy Pictures (2008)

David Holmes does everything. Funk and soul compilations, soundtracks for the Oceans 11, 12 and 13 movies - in which the music is vastly superior to the films and some more stuff that's explained in the next sentence. He's also experimented with electronic meanderings, shopped around dusty record shops in Belfast and New York to find rare soul nuggets and fused more styles than Diego Fuser has had Italian football clubs. I want his life. This album brings along an hypnotic shoegaze and for the sake of cliche 'adds a new string to Holmes' bow.' Sometimes cliches are necessary. Style-wise, 'The Holy Pictures' sounds like a vintage Holmes soundtrack for a film that never was, the tracks flittering from vocal to instrumental and it retains consistency throughout. Debonair.