Everyone’s favourite former vagrant Willis Earl Beal’s debut album is appropriately entitled Acousmatic Sorcery. In many ways it mirrors much of the bluesmith’s life, as it takes the listener on a journey of massive highs and depressing lows over the course of 11 tracks. Much has been made of the songwriter’s homeless days in the desert and his penchant for poorly-recorded material (purely out of necessity of course) – but when you strip all that away we’re left with a collection of songs that are raw, romantic and, at times, really quite wonderful (witness ‘Evening’s Kiss’). Fans of Tom Waits and Robert Johnson should check it out.