Luke Sital Singh – Honest Man (Best Fit Session)

South London’s Luke Sital-Singh has only been musically active for a few months but his take on the classic British folk sound might just see him end the year as one of the great hopes for 2013.

Talented way beyond his years, the melting combination of earnest vocal and songs that drip with love-lostness would normally be too much for our ears if there wasn’t a lot more going on – and indeed there is. Sital-Singh draws influences from beyond the usual canon of homegrown British singer-songwriters: there’s hints of Neil Young in there, traces of Ryan Adams, John Martyn, Josh Ritter. Paul Lester put it aptly in in The Guardian: ” is not just another boy with a guitar”.

We earmarked Sital-Singh for a Best Fit Session less than 30 seconds through hearing an early version of ‘Honest Man‘, the track he performed for us in the hallowed confines of a North London Church (and one that bears his name – St Luke’s in Holloway, no less).