Rating: 5/5
Review:
A very fine album
I like this album very much.
I confess that I hadn't come across Joan Shelley until seeing her on the
Jools Holland programme; I was impressed enough to try the album and I'm very
glad I did. In an age were we are
incredibly blessed with excellent female singer-songwriters, I think Joan
Shelley stands proudly among them.
This is a quiet, contemplative album of thoughtful songs
which have a real musical and lyrical intelligence about them, sung with a
lovely, expressive voice. Shelley
reminds me in places of Alela Diane with her haunting voice and some slightly
quirky melodic structures, but she is also capable of writing a simply
beautiful song like Where I'll Find You, which is a real gem, I think. The arrangement and production is excellent;
generally fairly simple but extremely well judged so that every song speaks
beautifully.
My advice is to listen to a few samples. If you like what you hear, don't hesitate;
this is a classy album of very good songs, very well performed and one of the
major finds of the year for me. Warmly
recommended.
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