Rating: 5/5
Review:
Another fine album from Ana Egge
I like Ana Egge's work very much. This is a newish departure for her, recording
with The Sentimentals and developing a rather harder band sound; for the most
part it works very well.
Ege still writes excellent songs; the material here is
varied and looks at matters of the heart (and other organs) as well as some
burning social issues – notably in He's A Killer Now, which is an excellent,
haunting song from the point of view of a mother whose son has committed a
murderous act of terrorism. I was
gripped from the moment I heard the opening line, "Forgive my son…"
sung with all the quiet heartbreak which Ege can do so brilliantly. Other songs are also very thoughtful and well
crafted. The quirkiness which made albums
like Road To My Love so brilliant isn't quite so evident here, but this is
still a fine collection of songs.
The band are excellent and Egge's distinctive, haunting
vocals remain quite wonderful to me. It
is evident how good she is when the lead vocals on Still Waters Run Deep are
taken by MC Hansen; it's a perfectly decent song, well sung and played, but it
just doesn't have that something that Egge brings. Nonetheless, I think this is another fine
album from a very good but rather overlooked singer/songwriter, and I can
recommend it warmly.
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