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Three years on from their final studio album (with a stay one showing within the interim), Helen Watson, Julie Matthews, Chris Whereas, Melanie Harrold and Christine Collister take to the wing once more for one more stylistically and thematically various assortment.
 
Watson’s first in to bat with Flip The Microphones Off, a vaguely African shuffle rhythm with Whereas on darbuka that,  opening within the Anthropocene and that includes a spoken passage halfway, would seem like a plea to tone down the noise of social media’s neural web in order that “what’s stated within the cave/Stays within the cave”. Subsequent up, Matthews takes to the skies with Be Amelia. This shimmering and barely jazzy fingerpicked quantity takes Amelia Earhart as encouragement of empowerment to younger ladies to “stand on her bones and be extraordinary”.
 
Switching to extra of a soulful gospel sound, Matthews on piano, Collister’s up subsequent with You Acquired Me Going, a love track written a decade in the past however solely now discovering its setting, the others offering chorus vocals as she builds to a molten climax. Harrold’s Rogue Rider sports activities the album title in its opening line and that includes simply Dave Bowie Jr on sparse double bass that mirrors the vocal supply about following and embracing your future and being a assist to others.
 
Shifting once more, a co-write between Whereas and Charlie Dore, the five-minute Saturday With Mr Rameer skips round cascading chords in an ode to the liberating joys of Saturdays spent studying ballroom dancing. One other collaboration, this time between Watson and Howard Lees, that includes Matthews on keys and Whereas on percussion, You’ll By no means Go Away is a jazzy blues slink that once more includes a form of scat spoken passage and which, based on her notes, pertains to occasions of a romantic nature in 1968 as she opens with “I used to wish to have a giant speak with you boy…However I by no means had the phrases or the inclination to let these emotions present…you at all times had it turned full on…skating in a chemical state”, including “give me a name, shy don’t you”.
 
Written with Watson, Exhausting To Be The Approach is a devoted revisiting of the handclap percussion, a country-flavoured track from Whereas and  Matthews debut album, Piecework, again in 1997, right here with some added keyboards color then its again to ethereal jazzy blues for Collister’s So Courageous, a love letter to her late father, the lyrics of which solely got here the day earlier than recording. Harrold supplies the penultimate monitor, one other gospel-influenced quantity however with a extra uptempo refrain, This Girl At the moment being a  hymn to sisterhood, Matthews offering the final phrase with the albums solely political quantity, the regular uneven rhythm and lap steel-backed That’s Simply Life Round Right here, the others’ voices interweaving behind her on a track about working arduous to maintain the wolf from the door, former industrial cities fallen into financial despair and “good individuals in tough instances”.  A terrific instance of sisters doing it for themselves in their very own methods and on their very own phrases, an arrival nicely price breaking out the greeting banners for.

Tracklist: 
01 - Turn the Microphones Off
02 - Be Amelia
03 - You Got Me Going
04 - Rogue Rider
05 - Saturday with Mr Rameer
06 - You'll Never Go Away
07 - Hard to Be the Way
08 - So Brave
09 - This Woman Today
10 - That's Just Life Around Here

Staat er compleet op, 20% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster.

“Muziek is kunst en kunst moet voor iedereen bereikbaar zijn, anders is het elitair.”

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