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Well, at the risk of being shocking, first explorations suggest that this sounds quite a lot like Echobelly. Specifically, the entire album sounds quite a bit like "Dark Therapy", the last track on their second album, "On" (1.99, cassette, Left-Legged Pineapple, Loughborough). So, the songs are a fair bit slower than "I can't imagine the world without me" - one might instead trace a lineage from "Insomnia", which the choruses becoming progressively less shouty and the tunes more sedate. Whether this is a smooth trend through their third album may never be known, because who the Hell would own Echobelly's third album?
One reviewer commented that Echobelly had become Morcheeba, which is not entirely true but does have a degree of rightness to it. This is, of course, at best a sideways move. Without Debbie Smith, the music seems to lack push. It's competent but somewhat unvarying.
Taking into account the change in style (or gradation in style, anyway), Sonya Aurora-Madan's voice has changed not too much - it sounds smoother and more accomplished, but then it is called upon to shout a lot less. It remains thin, especially in the upper registers, but her commitment to singing in a slightly suburban RP accent remains creditable. |
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