Labels: bakery outlet
Review by: Ian Scanlon
This quiet beauty of a record arrives via No idea distro’ on plan-it-x and bakery outlet records. Now I previously had No idea down as a haven of the LOUD AND ANGRY types, 12 hour turn, Floor, etc, etc, etc… so when this was pre reviewed by my girlfriend as Joanna Newsom with a guitar… i was somewhat surprised, but that’s essentially what this is. The songs are very simple often just one guitar and the odd bass note. Musically it reminds me of the more circumspect tunes off the really old billy bragg albums… with Erin’s vocals upping the elven quotient drastically. The result it perhaps not as immediately arresting as Ms Newsom’s Harp/ wailing action, and the tracks that attempt a slightly edgier approach, like “Nebula song”‘s snare drum and reverb drenched guitar, are a bit hard going. There’s a certain undercurrent of the scientific which is something I can fullly get behind, being of that persuasion myself. The cover has a nice shot of the star eta carinae and it’s nebula, printed with veg’ inks on recycled card RIGHT ON, and “robot song” and” relativity song” wouldn’t sound out of place educating junior school kids on astrophysics (and robots, maybe). Full points also to the nod to Angela Carter’s feminist fairy tale “Wolf Alice” which has lyrics about eating kids and some nice da da da da’s… One to pick for all of you yearning for a girl singer doing DIY tunes about stars, kids raised by animals and getting married. Sweet, if I gave ratings I would rate this high.