TRAVELOGUE (hellosQuare) 8/10 If the sounds on Sensaround’s last opus were like a mist, here they have thickened into the sort of fog in which your first awareness of the proximity of another creature is colliding with them. The wonder of the use of electronics, Fender Rhodes and percussion by…
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GARDEN IN MY MIND (Sunnyside) 8/10 Some flowers are at their most beautiful just before they fully bloom. Joanna Wallfisch’s singing is like that, suggesting restraint, as if her throat and heart are not fully opened. Yet implicit in this restraint is a delicacy, a purity and even a fragile…
20 STRINGS AND THE TRUTH (Dog My Cat) 7/10 Harry Manx works within such slender musical confines that for him to discard one of the few elements he had in play was a high-risk strategy. The Canadian folk-blues singer/guitarist mostly pens material of similar rhythm, tempo, mood (mellow) and texture…