Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent album
This is an excellent album.
Tracey Thorn is a very fine songwriter and performer, but I haven't
always liked her more electronic stuff quite so much. I do here.
Record features Tracey Thorn's usual thoughtful, intelligent
lyrics which always lift her songs. She
also writes great, simple tunes and really understands the value of restrained
but very musical production to weave them into tracks of real quality. I was put in mind slightly here of some of
Vince Clarke's best work with Depeche Mode and Yazoo –
which is very high praise. The album
doesn't really sound like those early 80s tracks, but it has some of the same
quality of melody and sympathetic production which gave them such class and
staying power.
I'm really impressed with this album. It's danceable, but it's also very
atmospheric and listenable too. Warmly
recommended.
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